Billy Budd, Sailor

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Billy Budd, Sailor | 144 Pages Herman Melville’s final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his deathIn it, Melville returns to the sea to tell the story of Billy, a cheer ful, hard working, and handsome young sailor, conscripted to work against his will on another ship, where he soon finds himself persecuted by Claggart, the paranoid master-at-arms. As things escalate beyond the naive Billy’s control, tragedy looms on the horizon like Melville’s great white whale, and the story become Melville’s final, sublime plunge into the classic tussle between civilization and chaos, between oppression and freedom, as well as the book in which he discusses homosexuality most openly. Show more