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Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville (Thrift Edition)
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 master-at-arms, who falsely accuses Billy of inciting mutiny. Rich in ambiguities, Herman Melville's haunting parable of the clash between good and evil raises thought-provoking issues related to the conflict between the requirements of the law and the needs of humanity.
This is the definitive edition of Melville's classic tale.Billy Budd, Sailorwas discovered unfinished in the author's desk shortly after his 1891 death and remained unpublished until 1924. This textis the result of years of study and scrupulous research by Melville scholars. Itoffers students and other lovers of literature the best and most authentic version of the American storyteller's final masterpiece.
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