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Book · 1924 · Fiction

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville
Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 385 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score

Struck dumb by a false charge of mutiny, a beautiful young sailor answers with his fist and kills his accuser. Melville leaves his captain to choose between the law and the plain truth.

Medium
Novella
Setting
At sea
Time
1924Depicts 18th century

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