by Herman Melville · Unidad Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481300574
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«Billy Budd, marinero» is the novel by Herman Melville published by Unidad Editorial in paperback (110 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in 1797, during the Napoleonic Wars: Billy Budd, a sailor recruited into the Royal Navy, earns the crew's affection through his innocence and goodness, but arouses the hostility of the master-at-arms John Claggart, who falsely accuses him of sedition. The novel addresses innocence, evil, justice and redemption.
Originally published in 1924. Copy from the collection Las novelas del verano, no. 14, edited by Unidad Editorial for El Mundo.
For readers aged 12 and over interested in classics of North American literature and sea stories with moral dilemmas.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
