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An edition of Billy Budd (1900)

Melville's Billy Budd

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Mr. Freeman presents the results of his careful appraisal of the two works, and reinterprets the often misunderstood last five years of Melville's life--the years which formed the background for these final writings. In an extensive introduction he reveals Melville's creative process and his solution to the universal conflict between good and evil--the conflict which haunted him through all his works.

Here are two "firsts" for Melville collectors: "Baby Budd, Sailor," published for the first time; and Billy Budd, Foretopman in its first complete, accurate transcription. William Ellery Sedgwick has written: "The story of Billy Budd is as stark a tragedy as an American writer even to this day has ever penned." The general reader will find this story, in both the short and long versions, of great emotional impact and intensity. Everyone who recognises the greatness of Typee, White Jacket, or Moby Dick will be stirred by Billy Budd, as will all lovers of seafaring literature.

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Harvard Univ. Press
Language
English
Pages
381

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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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Billy Budd, Edward Fairfax Vere, John Claggart

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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
1948, Harvard Univ. Press
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Edition Notes

"The complete text of the novel and of the unpublished short story [Baby Budd, sailor]"

Bibliography: p. [371]-381

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Cambridge, MA, USA
Other Titles
Billy Budd
Copyright Date
1948

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.M498 Bi 6 PS2384.B5

Contributors

Editor
F. Barron Freeman

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiv, 381 p.
Number of pages
381

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17570071M
Internet Archive
billybudd0000melv
LCCN
48009543
OCLC/WorldCat
186239369, 562090195
Hathi Trust
000632031
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Amazon ID (ASIN)
B001PBBN7W, B000JL93BM
Goodreads
49486554

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Miami University of Ohio MARC record

Work Description

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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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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