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Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut. These may seem names, the like of which are not usually found in the Directory. In truth they were nicknames, mutually conferred upon each other by my three clerks, and were deemed expressive of their respective persons or characters.…

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. Freeberg, Eric (illustrator). …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. El actor y director teatral, Josep Maria Pou, narra magistralmente este cl sico de la literatura. Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje ser en un ballenero. El joven entabla amistad con el arponero Queequeg, con quien se enrola en el Pequod, dirigido por el misterioso y autoritario capit n Ahab, un viejo lobo de mar con una pierna construida con la mand bula de un cachalote. Ahab revelar a su tripulaci n que el objetivo del viaje, m s all de la caza de ballenas, es la persecuci n de Moby Dick, un enorme cachalote que le hizo perder la pierna y que tiene fama de causar estragos a todos los que intentan cazarlo.Please note: This audiobook is in Castilian Spanish.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. El actor y director teatral, Josep Maria Pou, narra magistralmente este cl sico de la literatura. Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje ser en un ballenero. El joven entabla amistad con el arponero Queequeg, con quien se enrola en el Pequod, dirigido por el misterioso y autoritario capit n Ahab, un viejo lobo de mar con una pierna construida con la mand bula de un cachalote. Ahab revelar a su tripulaci n que el objetivo del viaje, m s all de la caza de ballenas, es la persecuci n de Moby Dick, un enorme cachalote que le hizo perder la pierna y que tiene fama de causar estragos a todos los que intentan cazarlo.Please note: This audiobook is in Castilian Spanish.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. 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. …

Zustand: Very Good. 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.…

Zustand: Fair. 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. …

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reissue. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Enriched 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.Billy Budd, Sailor 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. Enriched 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. Read with confidence.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. From the creator of Myths Retold comes a hilarious collection of Greek, Norse, Chinese and even Sumerian myths retold in their purest, bawdiest forms! All our lives, we've been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths. In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified.wait, it all makes sense now. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O'Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. Did you know? . Cronus liked to eat babies. . Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate. . Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. . Isis had bad taste in jewelry. . Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy. . And Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face. Still skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: . Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed. . The entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone. . The Hindu universe is run by a married couple who only stop murdering in order to throw sweet dance parties.on the corpses of their enemies. . The Norse goddess Freyja once consented to a four-dwarf gangbang in exchange for one shiny necklace. And there's more dysfunctional goodness where that came from. Melville, Sarah E. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From the creator of Myths Retold comes a hilarious collection of Greek, Norse, Chinese and even Sumerian myths retold in their purest, bawdiest forms! All our lives, we've been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths. In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified.wait, it all makes sense now. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O'Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. Did you know? . Cronus liked to eat babies. . Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate. . Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. . Isis had bad taste in jewelry. . Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy. . And Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face. Still skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: . Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed. . The entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone. . The Hindu universe is run by a married couple who only stop murdering in order to throw sweet dance parties.on the corpses of their enemies. . The Norse goddess Freyja once consented to a four-dwarf gangbang in exchange for one shiny necklace. And there's more dysfunctional goodness where that came from. Melville, Sarah E. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. From the creator of Myths Retold comes a hilarious collection of Greek, Norse, Chinese and even Sumerian myths retold in their purest, bawdiest forms! All our lives, we've been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths. In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified.wait, it all makes sense now. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O'Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. Did you know? . Cronus liked to eat babies. . Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate. . Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. . Isis had bad taste in jewelry. . Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy. . And Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face. Still skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: . Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed. . The entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone. . The Hindu universe is run by a married couple who only stop murdering in order to throw sweet dance parties.on the corpses of their enemies. . The Norse goddess Freyja once consented to a four-dwarf gangbang in exchange for one shiny necklace. And there's more dysfunctional goodness where that came from. Melville, Sarah E. (illustrator).…

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Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Enriched Classic. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Doctor Dolittle, a little, lovable old doctor, had so many animal pets spread throughout his house and garden that patients would not come to him anymore. As a result, he became poorer and poorer.But Doctor Dolittle occupied nearly all of his time tending to his pets, and his fame as an animal doctor spread all over the world. When the monkeys in Africa were stricken with an epidemic, they gave the good doctor a call. He set sail at once.The adventures during his magnificent journey across the ocean, through the high kingdom of the Jolliginki and back again by way of the Canaries, combine to form a story filled with delight.An enduring classic, it will dazzle and delight readers young and old.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. Billy Budd, Sailor, his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his quarrel with God. It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in Bartelby the Scrivener, his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in Benito Cereno, his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie The Encantados, the beautiful, romantic The Piazza, and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, The Bell-Tower.…