Billy Budd
Billy Budd

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: Aerie

Published: 1992-05-15

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1429959541

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the handsome sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him... All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...He could frame Billy Budd for treason... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Billy Budd, Sailor
Billy Budd, Sailor

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1416584684

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Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man’s intransigence. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.

CliffsNotes on Melville's Billy Budd & Typee, Revised Edition
CliffsNotes on Melville's Billy Budd & Typee, Revised Edition

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004-09-10

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0544179943

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Explore two lively classic tales of adventure on the high seas with CliffsNotes Billy Budd & Typee, the study guide that can raise your insight as well as your test scores! Meet Billy Budd, the sailor that everyone likes . . . or do they? And then set sail through the wild side of the South Seas in Typee. You’ll be up to speed on all the plot details and more with in-depth character analysis, critical essays, and insight into the novel's literary devices. You'll also discover background information on the life of Herman Melville and his place in American literature.

Billy Budd
Billy Budd

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: Lake Publishing Company (CA)

Published: 1994-08

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781561036158

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A comic book adaptation of the classic in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.

Herman Melville's Billy Budd & Typee
Herman Melville's Billy Budd & Typee

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780812034042

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A guide to reading "Billy Budd" and "Typee" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Billy Budd
Billy Budd

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1952438535

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While 'Moby Dick' is Herman Melville’s best known book, 'Billy Budd, Sailor' is considered by many to be his greatest work. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. He arouses the antagonism of the ship’s master-at-arms, John Claggart. Claggart, while not unattractive, seems somehow defective or abnormal next to Billy. Despite Claggart’s animosity towards him, Billy saves Claggart’s life further infuriating the man. Claggart then accuses Billy of conspiring to mutiny. Billy, dumfounded by the accusation, becomes unable to defend himself against Claggart’s words because of his stuttering and in frustration strikes the lying Claggart with a blow so powerful that it kills the man instantly. In the ensuing trial Melville explores good and evil, justices and mercy, right and wrong, and natural law verses man’s law. A Masterpiece for the Ages!

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780192839039

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Outwardly a narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a portrait of three extraordinary men.