Billy Budd

Name: Billy Budd
Author: Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

Novella about a handsome sailor executed aboard a warship during wartime

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville wrote one of the greatest novels in the English language with Moby-Dick, a philosophical epic about obsession and the sea. Largely unappreciated in his lifetime, he was rediscovered in the twentieth century as a towering figure of American literature.

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