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Title: Billy Budd, Sailor
Author: MELVILLE HERMAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/12/2016
Imprint: MELVILLE HOUSE
Price: $9.95
Publishing status: Active
“Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville’s best-loved books:and one of his most open, with its discussion of homosexualty. In it, Melville returns to the sea to tell the story of Billy, a cheerful, hard working, and handsome young sailor, conscripted to work against his will on another ship, where he soon finds himself persecuted by Claggart, the paranoid master-at-arms. As things escalate beyond the naive Billy’s control, tragedy looms on the horizon like Melville’s great white whale, and the story become Melville’s final, sublime plunge into the classic tussle between civilization and chaos, between oppression and freedom, as well as the book in which he discusses homosexuality most openly. One of the major works of American literature. Series Overview: Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers but beloved and practiced by literature’s greatest writers. The Art of the Novella Series celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners. The series has been recognized for its oexcellence in designo by AIGA.”
ISBN: 9781612195858
Pages: 128