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Billy Budd and Other Stories
Billy Budd and Other Stories brings together the final masterpiece and landmark short fiction of Herman Melville (best known for Moby-Dick). Left unfinished at Melville’s death in 1891 and published posthumously, the titular novella Billy Budd, Sailor is widely regarded as one of the most profound psychological and ethical allegories in American literature. The broader collection typically features Melville’s finest short masterpieces, exploring isolation, alienation, the clash between individual innocence and institutional power, and the ambiguous nature of truth.
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