Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces: The Sailor Hanged for a Blow He Did Not Mean
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The sailor hanged for a blow he did not mean to strike, together with the shorter prose Melville left unpublished. Billy Budd was found in a tin box among his papers thirty years after his death and printed for the first time in 1924; it is the last thing he wrote. This edition adds fifty-nine plates of maritime painting by Turner, Aivazovsky, van Os and Eckersberg, dating from 1760 to 1888.
The sailor hanged for a blow he did not mean to strike, together with the shorter prose Melville left unpublished. Billy Budd was found in a tin box among his papers thirty years after his death and printed for the first time in 1924; it is the last thing he wrote. This edition adds fifty-nine pl...
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Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American writer born in New York City. He sailed as a whaler and a naval seaman, deserted in the Marquesas, wrote six books in six years and then spent nineteen years as a customs inspector in obscurity. His works include Typee, Moby-Dick, White-Jacket, and Billy Budd.
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American writer born in New York City. He sailed as a whaler and a naval seaman, deserted in the Marquesas, wrote six books in six years and then spent nineteen years as a customs inspector in obscurity. His works include Typee, Moby-Dick, White-Jacket, and Bill...
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