Auteur Herman Melville (1819-1891)
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Stung by the difficult reception of Moby Dick, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sesne of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a classic confron[...]
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Herman Melville ; Harold Lowther Beaver | Harmondsworth : Penguin Books | Penguin classics. | impr. 1985.level2:Billy Budd is a story about a young, handsome, and innocent sailor named Billy Budd, who is loved by everyone on the ship HMS Bellipotent. He is cheerful, honest, and kind, but also naïve and unable to understand evil in others. The sh[...]
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It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in l[...]
