Billy Budd: Downloadable Teaching Unit (Clasicos Universales Series #41)
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- Synopsis
- A young sailor in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy is falsely accused of mutiny in this classic tale of good and evil by the celebrated author of Moby Dick.England, 1797. Billy Budd, a young sailor aboard the merchant ship Rights-of-Man is conscripted to serve on a Royal Navy warship, the HMS Bellipotent. Innocent and charming despite his stutter, Billy is quickly accepted by the crew—and resented by the ship&’s brooding master-at-arms, John Claggart. When Claggart accuses Billy of conspiracy to mutiny, the false charge sets the young innocent on an inescapable path toward tragedy. Herman Melville&’s final novel, Billy Budd was first published in 1924, more than thirty years after the author&’s death. A tale of virtue caught in the machinery of law and wartime vigilance, this American classic has been adapted for both stage and screen, and remains one of Melville&’s most beloved works.
- Copyright:
- 1982
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 74 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781504061179
- Publisher:
- Open Road Media
- Date of Addition:
- 01/09/25
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- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Outdoors and Nature
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.