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Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories
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030901
ISBN
9780553212747
Grade 6-AD
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Brilliantly written with deep and complex themes beneath the surface, this collection of tales by Herman Melville is a perfect addition to your middle or high school literature studies. Includes Billy Budd, Sailor as well as The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles, and The Bell-Tower. A Note: This edition is used by the Classical Conversations® program at the Challenge 1 level. 320 pgs, pb. ~Nancie
Publisher's Description of Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories
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 individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby 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 Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville’s chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower."
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Product Format: | Paperback |
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Brand: | Bantam, Doubleday and Dell |
Author: | Herman Melville |
Grades: | 6-AD |
ISBN: | 9780553212747 |
Length in Inches: | 6.875 |
Width in Inches: | 4.125 |
Height in Inches: | 0.625 |
Weight in Pounds: | 0.35 |
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