| Billy Budd, Sailor Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1612195857 ISBN-13: 9781612195858 Publisher: Melville House Publishing OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Sea Stories - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| LCCN: 2016021229 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 6.9" (0.30 lbs) 144 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 32373 Reading Level: 10.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death. Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books--and one of his most open, with its discussion of homosexualty. In it, Melville returns to the sea to tell the story of Billy, a cheerful, hard working, and handsome young sailor, conscripted to work against his will on another ship, where he soon finds himself persecuted by Claggart, the paranoid master-at-arms. As things escalate beyond the naive Billy's control, tragedy looms on the horizon like Melville's great white whale, and the story become Melville's final, sublime plunge into the classic tussle between civilization and chaos, between oppression and freedom, as well as the book in which he discusses homosexuality most openly. One of the major works of American literature. |