Billy Budd il marinaio
Format: paperback
ISBN:
887983200x
Publish date: May 1993
Publisher: Newton Compton
Pages no: 94
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
High School
After reading the introduction of this book, I was under the impression that it was about a mutiny. Therefore, my perspective was a bit skewed going in. So as a warning to future readers, this is not about a mutiny. It does not detail a mutiny. In fact, a mutiny does not happen at all. There is a ru...
I felt ambivalent about Moby Dick; I loved the grandeur of some of the language and beauty of some of the prose, but hated the lengthy digressions. With Billy Budd, a novella published after Melville's death, I also feel ambivalent, but here my problems are more integral, not just a matter of cuttin...
I think that I was one of the only students in my high school American Lit. class that liked Billy Budd. It's actually my favorite Melville story. It's just packed full of injustice and bravery in the face of unbeatable odds. Just the kind of thing that can really hit that nerve that teenagers ha...
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