An ogre, a miracle-working horse, a talking ant, and other fantastic creatures pop up in the most unexpected places in this treasury of 6 time-honored tales from Eastern Europe, among them "The Old Man's Son," "Prince Surprise," "The Prince and the Foundling," the title story, and 2 others.
Penguin popular classics BILLY BUDD,SAILOR COMPLETE AND UNABRI The last great work of Melville's.H.M.S.Bellipotent. When Billy,a handsome,unjpretentious,stuttering young able-seaman,is falsely accused of inciting mutiny,he lashes out,kills his accuser and is condemde to die.Written in allusive and beautiful prose,many-layered,resonant with ideans and meanings,Billy Budd has inspierd drama,films and opera and continues to elude interpretation. The main theme of the novel,however is generally conidered to be the vulnerabillity of innocence in a fallen world.Billy,a victim of one man's unnatural hatred,is the embodiment of goodness destuoyed by evil,but as 'the criminap pays the penalty of his crime',a greater justice comes into play. 作者简介： HERMAN MELVILLE（1819-91）.Ome of America's greatest autobrs.Melville is best remembered as the creator of Moby Dick,a novel since heralded as a tuiumph of nineteenth-centrury American fiction. Herman Melville was born in New York City in
