Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
de Melville, Herman
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- ISBN 10
- 0553210947
- ISBN 13
- 9780553210941
- Librería
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Binghamton, New York, United States
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Sinopsis
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. When his father died, he was forced to leave school and find work. After passing through some minor clerical jobs, the eighteen-year-old young man shipped out to sea, first on a short cargo trip, then, at twenty-one, on a three-year South Sea whaling venture. From the experiences accumulated on this voyage would come the material for his early books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), as well as for such masterpieces as Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre (1852), The Piazza Tales (1856) and Billy Budd, Sailor (posthumous, 1924). Though the first two novels—popular romantic adventures—sold well, Melville's more serious writing failed to attract a large audience, perhaps because it attacked the current philosophy of transcendentalism and its espoused "self-reliance." (As he made clear in the savagely comic The Confidence Man , 1857), Melville thought very little of Emersonian philosophy. He spent his later years working as a customs inspector on the New York docks, writing only poems comprising Battle-Pieces (1866). He died in 1891, leaving BILLY BUDD, Sailor , unpublished.
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- Librería
- Robinson Street Books, IOBA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- GRAYPB1216552
- Título
- Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
- Autor
- Melville, Herman
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0553210947
- ISBN 13
- 9780553210941
- Editorial
- Bantam Classics
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1982-05-01
- X weight
- 3 oz
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