Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville Paperback Book
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
If Melville had never written MOBY DICK, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales.
Billy Budd, Sailor, his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God".
It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and indi- vidual freedom, human justice and abstract good.
Melville also explores this theme in Bartleby the Scrivener, his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic and ultimately disastrous -- extreme; and in Benito Cereno, his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship.
Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie The Encantadas, the beautiful, romantic The Piazza, and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, The Bell-Tower.
Pages in unmarked condition, except first 6 pages have a few words underlined in pencil. Back cover page is dog-earred. Cover has some chipping and wear. Back cover is discolored.
