Book · 1924 · Fiction

Billy Budd, Sailor

Name: Billy Budd, Sailor
Author: 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.

Genre

Allegory Adventure Sea story

Medium

Novella

Subject

The law Abuse of power

Setting

At sea

Time

1924Depicts 18th century

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