Billy Budd, Sailor1 by Herman Melville
A short novel completed in draft form in 1891, first published in 1924. In an era of naval mutinies, seaman Billy Budd accidentally kills a malicious superior and then willingly suffers the dire consequences.
BILLY BUDD, FORETOPMAN WHAT BEFELL HIM IN THE YEAR OF THE GREAT MUTINY
Begun--Friday, November 16, 1888 Revision begun--March 2, 1889 Finished--April 19, 1891.
DEDICATED TO JACK CHASE ENGLISHMAN
WHEREVER THAT GREAT HEART MAY NOW BE HERE ON EARTH OR HARBOURED IN PARADISE CAPTAIN OF THE MAINTOP2 IN THE YEAR 1843 IN THE U.S. FRIGATE UNITED STATES
1 Text: From Billy Budd, Foretopman. Edited by Raymond Weaver (The Works of Herman Melville, Vol 8., London: Constable, 1924; revised in The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville. New York: H. Liveright, 1928). 2See link at bottom of each page for Dictionary (courtesy David Padilla).
PORTRAIT: Herman Melville (photographer unknown). CITATION INFORMATION (in MLA format): Padilla, David, editor. Herman Melville's Billy Budd. U Virginia. Gleeditions, 17 Apr. 2011, www.gleeditions.com/billybudd/students/toc.asp?lid=101. Originally published on Hypertexts, American Studies at the University of Virginia, 2001, xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/bb/bb_main.html. |
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