Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

80 pages first pub 1924 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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Cheerful, hardworking, and handsome, Billy is pressed into naval service aboard a British ship during the Napoleonic wars. The innocent and lovable young man quickly wins the hearts of all his comrades, save one: Claggart, the implacably bitter ma...

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