Billy Budd, Sailor
1924 · 385 pages
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.
★ 7.0
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The War of the End of the World
1981 · 568 pages
In the Brazilian backlands a wandering preacher gathers thousands of the destitute, and the young republic sends four armies to wipe them out. Vargas Llosa grants every fanatic in it his own reasoning.
★ 5.8