Billy Budd, Sailor is Herman Melville's final, posthumously published novel (1924). Set at sea during wartime, it tells the tragic story of a handsome sailor falsely accused and hanged, whose final words invoke Captain Vere.
Billy Budd, Sailor is the final novel by Herman Melville, published posthumously in 1924. Set during the Anglo-French wars, it tells the story of a handsome sailor, Billy Budd, who is falsely accused by the master-at-arms, John Claggart, and is unable to defend himself due to a stammer. He is hanged, proclaiming loyalty to Captain Vere, whose last word is Billy's name.
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| Back | short novel H. Melville 1886 set abroad and during the English and France war Billy Budd was a handsome sailor was charged by john claggart , an envious and brutal master at arms unable to defend himself because of his chronic stammer hanged while crying 'God bless captain Vere!' Vere's last word at the time of his death was Billy's name. Billy Budd, Sailor is the final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924 as edited by Raymond M. Weaver, a professor at Columbia University. Other versions were later published. Melville had begun writing the original work in November 1888, but left it unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by British critics as a masterpiece when published in London, it quickly took its place as a classic literary work in the United States |
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