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The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor

The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor

The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor

Editorial: Penguin Books LTD

Pàgines: 436

Any: 2012

EAN: 9780141199306

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Sobre el libro The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor de Herman Melville publicado por Penguin Books LTD al 2012:

´Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool´. In "The Confidence-Man", Melville´s unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamboat. "Billy Budd, Sailor", published after Melville´s death in 1891, is a gripping allegory of good and evil, as an innocent man, pressed into service on a British man-of-war, is falsely accused of mutiny. Both these late works are animated with the dark genius of the greatest of American writers. This is the Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Herman Melville

Sobre Herman Melville

Herman Melville va néixer a Nova York en 1819. Acuitat per la primerenca mort del seu pare i la situació de la seva família, va exercir diversos oficis, entre ells el de mestre i el de mariner a bord de diversos vaixells per l´Atlàntic, el Pacífic i les mars del Sud. Finalment es va establir en terra ferma en 1847. Va acabar els seus dies en 1891 sumit en l´oblit i en la precarietat econòmica.

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