Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

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fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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On one level, Melville's tale is an historical adventure story telling of life aboard ship shortly after the mutiny at Spithead in 1797. Billy is taken from a homeward bound merchantman to serve on the Seventy Four' HMS Indomitable. He falls foul ...

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