by Herman Melville · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621754
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«Billy Budd, Sailor» is the short novel by Herman Melville, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (96 pages, in English).
During the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, a young sailor loved by the crew, serves on the ship Indomitable. John Claggart, the master-at-arms, moved by envy, falsely accuses him of sedition. Billy, unable to defend himself due to his stutter, strikes Claggart. Captain Vere must then decide between law and conscience.
Published posthumously in 1924, this edition is part of the Penguin Popular Classics collection and includes an introduction and notes by Harold Beaver.
For fans of classic American fiction and tales of maritime setting.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
