Sailor Billy Budd: Selected Novels and Novels by Melville
by J
About This Novel
This book is an anthology of the author's short stories and short stories, which collects the author's most representative short stories, among which the most famous are "Bartleby the Clerk" and "Sailor Billy Budd". These works reflect the author's ideological tendencies and artistic standards. Literary critics believe that even if Melville did not write the masterpiece "Moby-Dick", he would still have a place in world literature with his short stories and novellas. His representative work "Bartleby, Clerk" reflects the author's keen observation and profound criticism of human nature by telling the story of a marginalized person in society. The story of "Sailor Billy Budd" has the quality of an ancient Greek myth. A young man killed someone but never understood why he was tried and convicted, highlighting the conflict between justice and the law.
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