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    Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his...
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    Billy Budd is a 1962 British historical drama-adventure film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. Adapted from Louis O. Coxe and Robert...
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    Billy Budd, Op. 50, is an opera by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by the novelist E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel Billy Budd...
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  • directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's 1888 novella Billy Budd. The story is set in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers...
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  • Melville's novella Billy Budd, first published 1924 David Budd, main character of Bodyguard (UK TV series) This page lists people with the surname Budd. If an...
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    Billy Budd is a play by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman based on Herman Melville's novella of the same name. Originally titled Uniform of Flesh, the...
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    A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word novella...
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  • series Billy Masterson, a character in the 1997 English-language French science fiction action movie The Fifth Element the title character of Billy Budd, a...
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  • Novellas are works of prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Several novellas have been recognized as among the best examples...
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  • London youth club. The line "Don't leave us in the dark" at the end of "Billy Budd" is sampled from the 1948 David Lean film adaptation of Dickens' Oliver...
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    Tony Award twice: for his choreography of Billy, a 1969 musical version of the Herman Melville novella, Billy Budd, and his direction of The Magic Show. As...
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    romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer...
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  • have won a number of awards. All were commissioned by New York-based Billy Budd Films. The studio has also produced more than 50 animated commercials...
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  • segregation-era South, the play is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and follows the murder investigation of the Sergeant in an all-black...
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  • exonerated. Gansevoort's first cousin, Herman Melville, later wrote the novella Billy Budd, inspired by the events. Gansevoort took part in the First Battle...
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    Opera (chap. VI). Herman Melville mentions Adamastor and Camões in his Billy Budd, at the end of Chapter VII. Adamastor is also the name of a sauropod dinosaur...
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  • her. She is shocked by the notion that there are homosexual themes in Billy Budd, the book A.J. is studying, and argues about it with Meadow and her roommates...
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  • Melville. His most important works are the genetic edition of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1962, co-edited with Harrison Hayford), Pursuing Melville, 1940–1980...
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    Benito Cereno (category American novellas)
    Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first...
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  • set apart for dance-houses, doxies, and tapsters" in his posthumous novella Billy Budd, Sailor. Fiddler's Green is the title of a 1950 novel by Ernest K...
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    starred in notable films such as Quo Vadis (1951), The Sundowners (1960), Billy Budd (1962), and Hot Millions (1968). He portrayed Hercule Poirot in Death...
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  • three types: Special, Summary, and General. In Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd (first published 1924), the title character is convicted at a drumhead...
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    Somers mutineers. Melville may have used elements of the story in his novella Billy Budd. The incident is detailed in the novel Voyage to the First of December...
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  • Ready Reserve base at Fort Smith. Fuller had said Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd inspired the play. The film holds a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes...
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    American novelist (28 September 1891), quoting his final, unfinished novella, Billy Budd "May God grant me these last wishes—peace and prosperity for Brazil...
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    exploring her aunt's strange, "gothic" house. In Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, Sailor (1924) the narrator says that an incident "is in its very...
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    by Boosey & Hawkes. Billy Budd, Op. 50: Opera in four acts, 162'. Libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, after the novella by Herman Melville. Premiered...
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    Herman Melville whose famous novella Billy Budd was not closely based on the Somers mutiny. Herman Melville (1962). Billy Budd, Sailor. U of Chicago Press...
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    by Walter Jon Williams, a novella in Worlds that Weren't, 2005, ISBN 978-1101212639 The Langoliers by Stephen King, a novella in Four Past Midnight, 1990...
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  • Apple App Store. Its inaugural literary selections were Herman Melville's Billy Budd and "I Was Here," an exclusive. Though it currently focuses on fiction...
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