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Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.12 | 14406 Users | 890 Reviews

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Title	:	Billy Budd, Sailor
Author	:	Herman Melville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2006 by Simon Schuster (first published 1924)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. American

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Dear High School Curriculum Writers:

I am positive that you can find a better novel than this one to use when introducing symbolism and extended metaphor to developing readers. "Christ-figure" is the most over-used of these extended metaphors; over-used to the point where its offensiveness ceases to be about the in-your-face religious aspect of it and becomes instead about the simple over-use of the symbols. If you want to "go there" with symbolism and metaphor and have high school age kids the ways in which literature can illuminate our experience not by representing it literally but by unhinging from it, try helping these students discover Garcia-Marquez or Allende.

And that's just assuming you want to stay in the "safe" territory of the Western hemisphere.

Ever your advisor,

me.

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Original Title:	Billy Budd, Sailor
ISBN:	1416523723 (ISBN13: 9781416523727)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.12 From 14406 Users | 890 Reviews

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges. Herman Melville, Billy BuddReading 'Billy Budd' left me thinking of David Foster Wallace and his unfinished novel The Pale King. Both are unfinished literary works that -- despite their roughness (and yes incompleteness) -- seem to suggest or hint that if given time/space/temperament, etc., Melville and Wallace could have produced works equalling their respective magna opera. Both are full of a confident stillness that hint at a

Boring and meandering - the writing style too, is not to my taste. Why is this a classic and on the 1001 book you need to read list?

I had hoped that during the time that has lapsed between having had to read this and Moby-Dick or, The Whale as an undergraduate and now I would have warmed up a bit more to Melville, who along with Dickens holds the dubious distinction as being my least favorite "canonical" authors. No dice. I found this just as difficult to read and even more difficult to sustain any kind of interest in, and was most grateful for the relative brevity of Billy Budd, especially as Melville's writing style can

As the first chapter opened, I realized with alarm that Melville's vocabulary is challenging. Fortunately, my long longstanding eclectic reading interests serve me well. In the 1800s when Billy Budd was published Melville's historical references to British naval battles and the country's ships were well-known to his audience. In 2012, however, each time I came across one of the historical facts, my mind "sailed" off to ponder its relevance. This book is on the Palomar College English Department

I read this in my teens. It depressed the ever-loving heck out of me.

It's an story from English Lit and honestly I remember very little. I didn't even remember I read it, so you see how it stuck with me.

From BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:The playwright Keith Dewhurst adapts Herman Melville's powerful story of persecution and retribution in the aftermath of the Naval Mutinies at Nore and Spithead in 1797. He also tells the story of the man who wrote it. Part of Radio 3's Britten centenary weekend, this play provides an alternative context to Britten's opera, which is also being broadcast on the station. Herman Melville was a man who himself had more than a passing acquaintance with mutiny. There was