by Herman Melville, Margaret Tarner · Macmillan Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780333752241
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«Billy Budd» is Herman Melville's maritime adventure novel adapted by Margaret Tarner, in paperback (64 pages, in English).
In 1797, in the Mediterranean and in the midst of war between Britain and France, young sailor Billy Budd joins the British warship Indomitable. Strong and good-looking, he soon wins the crew's regard, but also earns the enmity of the master-at-arms John Claggart, who begins to plot against him.
Edition from the Macmillan Readers series, in the Extended Reads line at beginner level, published in 1999.
For beginner-level English students looking for adapted classics to practice reading.
Herman Melville was an American writer 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. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
