Billy Budd, Sailor
By: Herman Melville ; introduced by Cyrus R.K. Patell.
Series: Enriched classics series
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780671028336
Subjects: Executions and executioners -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Impressment -- Fiction; Sailors -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed narrative prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man's intransigence.

Since its posthumous publication in 1924, Billy Budd has become one of the acknowledged masterpieces of American literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130)