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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151586403321

Autore

Melville Herman

Titolo

Billy Budd, Sailor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : , : Melville House, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61219-586-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 pages)

Classificazione

FIC004000FIC047000

Disciplina

813/.3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.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"--