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Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among ...
Moby-Dick (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville.While some characters only appear in the shore-based chapters at the beginning of the book, and others are captains and crewmembers of other ships, the majority of the characters are officers or crewmembers of the whaling ship, Pequod.
Published posthumously as Billy Budd, Foretopman, part of a sixteen volume edition of Melville's Complete Works for the London publisher. A second text, F. Barron Freeman Ed., was published in 1948, as Melville's Billy Budd by the Harvard University Press .
Herman Melville (born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
1924 in literature – Yevgeny Zamyatin's We; Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain); E. M. Forster's A Passage to India; Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman; Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter; José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex; Agatha Christie's The Man in the Brown Suit and Poirot Investigates.
Felix Aderca – Moartea unei republici roșii [11]; Michael Arlen – The Green Hat; Henry Howarth Bashford (anonymously) – Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man [12]
Sketch of Norris Houghton from Moscow students, 27 October 1960. Charles Norris Houghton (26 December 1909 – 9 October 2001) was an American stage manager, scenic designer, producer, director, theatre manager, academic, author, and public policy advocate. [1]
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.