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Billy Budd, Sailor
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Literatura y FicciónISBN | 9780140621754

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Pages: 96 pages
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140621754
Format: tapa blanda
Language: en
Release date: 25/5/1995
ISBN: 9780140621754
Synopsis of Billy Budd, Sailor
Billy Budd, Sailor es una novela corta del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville, publicada póstumamente en 1924. La historia se centra en Billy Budd, un joven marinero que sirve a bordo del buque de guerra Indomitable durante las guerras napoleónicas. Billy es un hombre popular y querido por sus compañeros, pero sufre la envidia del contramaestre John Claggart, quien lo acusa falsamente de sedición. Billy, incapaz de defenderse verbalmente debido a un tartamudeo, golpea a Claggart, causándole la muerte. El capitán Vere, aunque reconoce la inocencia de Billy, se ve obligado a condenarlo a muerte para mantener el orden y la disciplina a bordo. La novela explora temas como la inocencia, el bien y el mal, la justicia y la ley, y la tensión entre el individuo y la sociedad.
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Herman Melville
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.
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