Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other StoriesRandom House Publishing Group, 29.08.2006 - 320 Seiten If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic—and ultimately disastrous—extreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower." |
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The Piazza | 87 |
Bartleby | 103 |
Benito Cereno | 145 |
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles | 233 |
The BellTower | 291 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amasa Delano arms ashore Atufal aught Bannadonna Bartleby belfry bell Bellipotent Benito Cereno Billy Budd Billy's boat cabin called calm Cape Horn Captain Amasa Delano Captain Vere Charles Dickens Claggart commander creature crew deponent Don Alexandro Don Benito doubtless Edith Wharton Encantadas Enchanted Isles evinced eyes face foretopman Fyodor Dostoevsky glance gun deck hand Handsome Sailor hatchets heart human Hunilla Jane Austen land least less lieutenant look master master-at-arms mate mind morning nature Negro Babo never night Nippers oakum-pickers Oberlus once passed paused peculiar perhaps piazza poop present rock Rodondo round sails San Dominick scrivener seemed señor servant ship ship's side sight silent sort Spaniard Spanish stood story strange stranger things thought Captain Delano tion tortoises touching Turkey turned vessel voyage watch wind word young
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