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Rent Billy Budd, Sailor
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Narrator: William Roberts
Format: Abridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Naxos Audio Books
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $22.98
Discs: 3
Synopsis
Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He lashes out in a rage and accidentally kills his accuser, the demonic Claggart, with one blow. The ship's commander, Captain Vere, a conflicted man of principle, cries,