An edition of Billy Budd (1900)

Melville's Billy Budd

The Genetic Text

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An edition of Billy Budd (1900)

Melville's Billy Budd

The Genetic Text

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TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR
Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the Handsome Sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him...

All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...

He could frame Billy Budd for treason...


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open_syllabus_project, literature, classics, classic literature, Sailors, Ship captains, Fiction, Executions and executioners, Impressment, Sea stories, adult readers, Study and teaching, Historical Fiction, American literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, sea stories, Large type books, Adventure stories, American Adventure stories, American Sea stories, Executions and executioners--fiction, Ship captains--fiction, Impressment--fiction, Sailors--fiction, Ps2384 .b5 2016, 813/.3

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Cover of: Billy Budd, Sailor
Billy Budd, Sailor
2020-01-03, LibriVox
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Billy Budd
Sep 20, 2016, Broadview Press
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Billy Budd, Sailor: (An Inside Narrative )
2003, University of Chicago Press
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Billy Budd
1999 September, Perfection Learning Prebound
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Billy Budd
1992 05, TOR
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Billy Budd, marin
1987 May 14, Gallimard
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Billy Budd
1980, Ventura Books
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Billy Budd: abridged
1980, Caedmon
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Billy Budd
1972 June, Washington Square Press (Pocket Books)
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Billy Budd: With Reader's Guide
1971, Amsco School Publications
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Melville's Billy Budd: The Genetic Text
1962 June, University of Chicago Press
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Billy Budd, Sailor

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Hardcover
Number of pages
431

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OL10192039M
ISBN 10
0226321339
ISBN 13
9780226321332
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78069965
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6140052
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In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty.
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