{"product_id":"9781612195858","title":"Billy Budd, Sailor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHerman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e would emerge, after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.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the major works of American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 144 pages | 5\" x 7\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48413565059304,"sku":"9781612195858x","price":16.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0c4b9ef2-3363-453f-b865-c1aa46eb23f8.jpg?v=1777406087","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.ca\/products\/9781612195858","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}