Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

Herman Melville

278 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced
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If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brillia...

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