Books with title Billy Budd

Madrid. 19 cm. 106 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Aula 51. Biblioteca del estudiante'. Melville, Herman 1819-1891. Billy Budd, sailor. Traducción del inglés y notas de José María Valverde. Valverde, José María. 1926-1996 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-7551-262-3

Billy Budd is a novella begun around 1886 by American author Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891 and not published until 1924. The work has been central to Melville scholarship since it was discovered in manuscript form among Melville's papers in 1924 and published the same year. A story ultimately about good and evil, Billy Budd has often been interpreted allegorically.

Melvilles last work, it is a brilliant study of conflicts between social authority and individual freedom, human righteousness and evil. It is the story of a naive young man who is accused of a crime he has not committed. Melville has wonderfully portrayed the agony and helplessness of a young spirit against social injustice. Noteworthy for its infinite interpretations it arrests the readers interest.