Billy Budd,sailor (American Collection)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1860150160 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 537 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Because Roberts clearly enunciates each syllable, he is easy to understand. With the exception of the word, "lieutenant," there is no noticeable accent to distract students. All rights reserved. His speed does fluctuate when necessary to present different moods. From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up--In this distinguished presentation of Herman Melville's American literary tragedy set during the Napoleonic wars, the voice of actor William Roberts is so firm and knowledgeable that listeners feels as though he is relating his own experiences. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Being careful not to over-dramatize the stor
Nice collection Anonymous Melville and I have a complicated relationship. He was undoubted brilliant and a great writer. His work is much deeper, and more complex and nuanced than it often appears on the surface of a first reading. The enjoyment of reading Melville is for me personally in the subsequent analysis of it. The reading of it, however, (for me) feels like slow and deliberate torture. I often beg and plead for him to get the point. Sometimes it seems he goes on and on sayi. Almost Surreal I like this book though, like "Lord Jim", that I recently read, I had to get used to the writing style all over again. The sentences are long, and need concentration in order to understand. Yet, in this book, they convey an almost lyrical, poetic quality to the story, and you feel the emotion and the atmosphere of the scenes that Melville creates.The tragedy of Billy Budd does stay on - an abandoned child, illiterate, good-looking, almost innocent in his pe. "An Ethical Quagmire" according to Amazon Customer. Billy Budd is a tough read, but well worth it. The ethical and moral issues it presents are thought provoking and challenging. The characters are symbols rather than flesh and blood but their dilemmas are real. I led a discussion of it in a large, sophisticated group and the group members were avidly trying to make their contributions before time ran out. I really commend it to book clubs. Although the reading is challenging because of the author's style, t
His contributions to the Western canon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) about a clerk in a Wall Street office; the slave ship narrative Benito Cereno (1855); and Billy Budd, Sailor (1924). Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. When asked which o
However, below the surface lie some of Melville's thematic obsessions - the aristocratic savage pitted against inhumanity born of service and the institutions of war, innocence overtaken by fate and the law, the worthy encompassed by the inevitable. Billy is taken from a homeward bound merchantman to serve on the Seventy Four' HMS Indomitable. On one level, Melville's tale is an historical adventure story telling of life aboard ship shortly after the mutiny at Spithead in 1797. Billy becomes an unwilling martyr - what passes for justice must be implement