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Billy Budd, Sailor

and Selected Tales

Reissued (2)
  • 2 Want to read

'Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.'

So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars, billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of the three extraordinary men.

The eight shorter tales included here establish Melville, with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of hi age. Several of the tales - 'Bartleby the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno', 'the Encantadas', and 'The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids' - are acknowledged masterpieces. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in ever-increasing circles of meaning.

The texts of all the stories are reprinted from the most authoritative recent editions. This edition also includes the original source for 'Benito Cereno'.
(back cover)

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English
Pages
410

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Apr 15, 2009, Oxford University Press
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Cover of: Billy Budd, Sailor
Billy Budd, Sailor: and Selected Tales
2001 August 31, Oxford University Press, USA
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Billy Budd, Sailor: and Selected Tales
1998, Oxford University Press
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Billy Budd, Sailor: and selected Tales
1997, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Bartleby, the scrivener
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
The fiddler
The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids
The lightning-rod man
The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles
Benito Cereno
I and my chimney
Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlii]-xliv).

Published in
Oxford, England
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1962

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.3
Library of Congress
PS2382 .M55 1998, PS2382.M55 1998

Contributors

Editor
Robert Milder

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xlvii, 410 p. ;
Number of pages
410

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3581869M
Internet Archive
billybuddsailors00melvrich
ISBN 10
0192839039
ISBN 13
9780192839039
LCCN
2002278331
OCLC/WorldCat
60181255, 50725538
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0192839039
Google
DYs5uyA5bGAC
Library Thing
3469
Goodreads
42636677

Work Description

'Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.'

So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars, billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of the three extraordinary men.

The eight shorter tales included here establish Melville, with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of hi age. Several of the tales - 'Bartleby the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno', 'the Encantadas', and 'The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids' - are acknowledged masterpieces. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in ever-increasing circles of meaning.

The texts of all the stories are reprinted from the most authoritative recent editions. This edition also includes the original source for 'Benito Cereno'.
(back cover)

Contains:

Bartleby, the scrivener
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
The fiddler
The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids
The lightning-rod man
The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles
Benito Cereno
I and my chimney
Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative).

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