Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories (Penguin English Library)
de Melville, Herman
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Bien/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140430296
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430295
- Librería
-
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Penguin, 1982. Reprint . Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 466 pp. The book is cocked. The binding is tight and the text is clean.
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 He died in 1891, leaving BILLY BUDD, Sailor , unpublished.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
- Persephone's Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 052149
- Título
- Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories (Penguin English Library)
- Autor
- Melville, Herman
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0140430296
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430295
- Editorial
- Penguin
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1982
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Palabras clave
- Literature - American
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
