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Melville, Herman
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Fiction
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2016
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Melville, Herman
- Book ID
- 110136684
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 701 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories --American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty
Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick ,__ Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor ; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno ; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener ; Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville's. Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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Melville, Herman; Busch, Frederick
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Fiction
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1960
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Penguin Books
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English
โ 306 KB
### Product Description Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and F
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Melville, Herman
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Fiction
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PENGUIN group
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English
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Herman Melville
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Fiction
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2011;2014
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PENGUIN group
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English
โ 261 KB
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"Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include "Bartleby," "The Piazza," "The Encantadas," "The Bell-Tower," "Benito Cereno," "The Paradise of Bachelors," and "The
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Herman Melville
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Fiction
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1924;2014
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Penguin Books
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English
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Known best for his avant-garde and modernistic style, Herman Melville's stories come together in the compilation "Billy Budd and Other Stories." In "Billy Budd, Foretopman," Melville returns to the sea life and describes the tale of a well-liked sailor who is wrongly convicted of trying to enact mut
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
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Melville, Herman
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Fiction
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2011
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PENGUIN group
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English
โ 347 KB