Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 April 2025
- ISBN 9780198865124
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 196x129 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A new edition of Herman Melville's tragic novella about the young sailor, Billy Budd, who falls victim to a petty jealousy and false accusations.
MoreLong description:
'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!'
Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. The passion it has aroused in its readers over the years is a measure of how deeply it addresses some of the fundamental questions of experience that every age must reexamine for itself.
This edition draws on a new authoritative edition of Billy Budd, Sailor, which corrects the inaccuracies and excesses of former editions of Melville's notoriously incomplete final novella. Accompanied by extensive critical apparatus that draws on a wealth of recent Melville scholarship which highlights his contemporary relevance for questions of economics, ecology, identity, and sexuality and connects it to the key formal and interpretive issues at stake in understanding his art of fiction. It also includes a selection of Melville's short stories, as well as his review of Hawthorne's short fiction, 'Hawthorne and His Mosses'.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Herman Melville
The Piazza
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The Lightning-Rod Man
The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
The Bell-Tower
Hawthorne and His Mosses
The Fiddler
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
Jimmy Rose
I and My Chimney
The Apple-Tree Table
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
Explanatory Notes
