Billy Budd

Herman Melville

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A beloved, innocent young sailor is falsely accused of mutiny, strikes his accuser dead with one blow, and must be judged by a captain who knows he is guiltless. Melville's final masterpiece of law, conscience and the sea.

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