Billy Budd, sailor and other stories
Pocketbok. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books. 1967. 464 sidor.
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Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's works. Billy Budd is a "handsome sailor" who strikes and inadvertently kills his false accuser, Master-at-arms John Claggart. The ship's Captain, Edward Vere, recognizes Billy's lack of intent, but claims that the law of mutiny requires him to sentence Billy to be hanged.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780140430295
- Titel
- Billy Budd, sailor and other stories
- Författare
- Melville, Herman 1819-1891
- Förlag
- Harmondsworth : Penguin Books
- Utgivningsår
- 1967
- Språk
- English
