Billy Budd: Downloadable Teaching Unit (Clasicos Universales Series #41)
Classiques (romans), Policiers (romans), Mer (récits)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
A young sailor in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy is falsely accused of mutiny in this classic tale of good and evil by the celebrated author of Moby Dick.England, 1797. Billy Budd, a young sailor aboard the merchant ship Rights-of-Man is… conscripted to serve on a Royal Navy warship, the HMS Bellipotent. Innocent and charming despite his stutter, Billy is quickly accepted by the crew—and resented by the ship&’s brooding master-at-arms, John Claggart. When Claggart accuses Billy of conspiracy to mutiny, the false charge sets the young innocent on an inescapable path toward tragedy. Herman Melville&’s final novel, Billy Budd was first published in 1924, more than thirty years after the author&’s death. A tale of virtue caught in the machinery of law and wartime vigilance, this American classic has been adapted for both stage and screen, and remains one of Melville&’s most beloved works.