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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

Paperback • 1970 • English

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

By Herman Melville

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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 ...Show more

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1970

Language

English

Original title

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

Format

Paperback

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