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"Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death. 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...
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Melville House,
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| Publisher Address: | Brooklyn ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The art of the novella
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"Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death. 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"-- |
| Item Description: | "First published as volume XIII of The Complete Works of Herman Melville (Constable and Company, Ltd., 1924)"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 127 pages ; 18 cm. |
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9781612195858 1612195857 |
| Index Number: | PS2384 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/M531-2 |