Billy Budd and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) worked as a bank clerk! cabin boy and schoolteacher before embarking on the whalter Acushnet in 1841. Deserting the ship the following year! he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu! eventually returning to the United States. Books based on his adventures were immediate successful! but his masterpiece Moby Dick was considered too complex. Frederick Busch is the author of many works of fiction. He teaches literature and fiction writing at Colgate University! USA. Klappentext A confrontation between good and evil. It includes the story of an innocent young man who is unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. It features stories that illuminate the way fictions are created and shared by society.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Busch, Herman Melville
• Assisted by: Frederick Busch (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.2004
• EAN: 9780140390537
• ISBN: 978-0-14-039053-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature