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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)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales. To get started finding Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press

Release: 1998

ISBN: 0192839039

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)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales. To get started finding Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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