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[SR: 12479688], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780809030200], Hill & Wang, Hill & Wang, Book, [PU: Hill & Wang], Hill & Wang, "Billy Budd Herman Melville" by Herman Melville. IN THE time before steamships or then more frequently than now a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners man-of-war s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank or like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the Handsome Sailor of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates. A somewhat remarkable instance recurs to me. In Liverpool now half a century ago I saw under the shadow of the great dingy street-wall of Prince s Dock an obstruction long since removed a common sailor so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African of the unadulterate blood of Ham. A symmetric figure much above the average height. The two ends of a gay silk handkerchief thrown loose about the neck danced upon the displayed ebony of his chest in his ears were big hoops of gold and a Scotch Highland bonnet with a tartan band set off his shapely head. It was a hot noon in July and his face lustrous with perspiration beamed with barbaric good humor. In jovial sallies right and left his white teeth flashing into he rollicked along the centre of a company of his shipmates. These were made up of such an assortment of tribes and complexions as would have well fitted them to be marched up by Anacharsis Cloots before the bar of the first French Assembly as Representatives of the Human Race. At each spontaneous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black pagod of a fellow- the tribute of a pause and stare and less frequent an exclamation - the motley retinue showed that they took that sort of pride in the evoker of it which the Assyrian priests doubtless showed for their grand sculptured Bull when the faithful prostrated themselves. Download Billy Budd Now , 17, Literature & Fiction, 720360, Action & Adventure, 9823, African American, 5391236011, Ancient & Medieval Literature, 10016, British & Irish, 10399, Classics, 10129, Contemporary, 2159, Dramas & Plays, 10141, Erotica, 10108, Essays & Correspondence, 16260301, Foreign Language Fiction, 10134, Genre Fiction, 10177, Historical Fiction, 10204, History & Criticism, 4465, Humor & Satire, 10132, Literary, 5391238011, Mythology & Folk Tales, 10248, Poetry, 10300, Short Stories & Anthologies, 9822, United States, 542654, Women's Fiction, 10311, World Literature, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 0809030209

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Melville's last work, it is a brilliant study of conflicts between social authority and individual freedom, human righteousness and evil. action and adventure,contemporary,drama,genre fic… Meer...

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