{"product_id":"billy-budd-sailor-9781416523727","title":"Billy Budd, Sailor","description":"\u003cb\u003eEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man's intransigence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author's personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRead with confidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. After his father's death he left school for a series of clerical jobs before going to sea as a young man of nineteen. At twenty-one he shipped aboard the whaler \u003ci\u003eAcushnet\u003c\/i\u003e and began a series of adventures in the South Seas that would last for three years and form the basis for his first two novels, \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOmoo.\u003c\/i\u003e Although these two novels sold well and gained for Melville a measure of fame, nineteenth-century readers were puzzled by the experiments with form that he began with his third novel, \u003ci\u003eMardi, \u003c\/i\u003e and continued brilliantly in his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick.\u003c\/i\u003e During his later years spent working as a customs inspector on the New York docks, Melville published only poems, compiled in a collection entitled \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces, \u003c\/i\u003e and died in 1891 with \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor, \u003c\/i\u003e now considered a classic, still unpublish\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645521203474,"sku":"9781416523727","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b052159-3a83-4a7e-a766-189fe3eb4e76.jpg?v=1733154548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/billy-budd-sailor-9781416523727","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}