Billy Budd and Other Tales
A Fiction, Literature, American book. If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth...
This Signet Classics edition contains, in edition to Billy Budd, The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas (or Enchanted Islands), The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story from Moby Dick.Melville's short stories, somewhat neglected during his lifetime, are today considered to be among the small masterpieces of American fiction.His imagination is inventive, ironic, and extraordinarily attuned to our times. His settings and themes are various: the limits of artistic creation; the opposition of innocence and evil; fear of isolation; the inviolate sanctity of the human heart; the fearfulness and fascination with the "enchanted isles"; the ferocity of the white whale; Calvinist hellfire and damnation. His stories are unique in narrative method, profound in theme, and full of delights at all levels.
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- Pages: 334 pages
- ISBN: 9780451517142 / 451517148
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The maintenance of secrecy in the matter, the confining all knowledge of it for a time to the place where the homicide occurred, the quarter-deck cabin; in these particulars lurked some resemblance to the policy adopted in those tragedies of the palace which have occurred more than once in the capital founded by Peter the Barbarian. Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales // If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth his person ashore, the Handsome Sailor of the period in question evinced nothing of the dandified Billy-be-Dam, an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered, and in a form yet more amusing than the original, at the tiller of the boats on the tempestuous Erie Canal or, more likely, vaporing in the groggeries along the towpath. Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories // His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity, whensoever possible, with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters. Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories //
Having never read Melville beyond Moby Dick and Billy Budd, and with a mild distaste for "seafaring tales," I was pleasantly surprised to read several quite good, non-seafaring stories in this collection. Bad news first. Billy Budd to me has, and always will, represent that stark allegory of fable or parable, without the blessed brevity... "Bartleby...just step round to the Post Office, won't you?"..."I would prefer not to.""You will not?""I prefer not." Judging by the way some respond to Melville's other masterpiece, I think this book does not suit our times. For me this story of a man too good to live makes a book too good to put down. I remian a Billy Budd fan.
