Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
American Sea stories
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'Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars, billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parabl…
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