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The Art of the Novella Series celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners. Billy Budd by Herman Melville, The Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Editor, PSU-Hazleton, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. This year marks the centennial of the random discovery of Herman Melville’s novella by a scholar who was researching a biography of the author, and for a century Billy Budd has been analyzed. Series Overview- Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers but beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. The last chapter, devoted to Billy Budd, Foretopman, calls Melville’s final acceptance of life as tragic. One of the major works of American literature. As things escalate beyond the naive Billy's control, tragedy looms on the horizon like Melville's great white whale, and the story become Melville's final, sublime plunge into the classic tussle between civilization and chaos, between oppression and freedom, as well as the book in which he discusses homosexuality most openly. In it, Melville returns to the sea to tell the story of Billy, a cheerful, hard working, and handsome young sailor, conscripted to work against his will on another ship, where he soon finds himself persecuted by Claggart, the paranoid master-at-arms. Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books-and one of his most open, with its discussion of homosexualty.

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