Billy Budd
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If Melville had never written "Moby Dick," his place in literature would have been assured by his short fiction. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is his last work and his masterpiece -- a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. In "Bartleby the Scivener," a Wall Street law clerk takes passive resistance to a comic -- and tragic -- e... More
Book Information
Publisher | Pocket Books |
Binding | Paperback (56 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 48 |
ISBN-10 | 0671731440 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0671731441 |
Publication Date | 09/15/1990 |
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