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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn.
Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the handsome sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, nobel looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him...
All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...He could frame Billy Budd for treason...
This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn.
Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the handsome sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, nobel looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him...
All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...He could frame Billy Budd for treason...
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6 éditions pour ce livre
2011 
Editions Gallimard (L'imaginaire)
Traduit par Pierre Leyris
194 pages
ISBN : 9782070709045
1987 Editions Gallimard (L'imaginaire)
Traduit par Pierre Leyris
182 pages
14 mai 1987
ISBN : 9782070709045
1994 
Editions Penguin Books (Popular Classics)
88 pages
1992 Editions Tor Books (Classics)
116 pages
1986 Editions Penguin Books (Classics)
386 pages
1998 Editions Tor Books
71 pages
Format : ePub
ISBN : 9781603038218
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Si le résumé de la 4ème de couverture nous parle d'une histoire prometteuse, le style a vieilli et le rythme est maladroit. De Melville, je conseillerais plutôt "Bartleby" ou "Vareuse blanche".