Billy Budd, Sailor

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Author: Herman Melville

If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales.

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SKU 9780553212747 Categories Fiction (13-18), Fiction (19+) Tags Herman Melville, ocean, short stories

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“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.”