Billy Budd, Sailor

A beautifully designed, classic edition of Melville's original tale…discovered unfinished in the author's desk shortly after his death.

Billy Budd, a cheerful, good looking sailor with a natural charisma and innocence that makes him popular with the crew, is aboard a British ship during the Napoleonic wars. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense stress. Budd arouses the antagonism of the ship’s bitter master-at-arms, John Claggart, who falsely accuses Bill...