Billy Budd, Sailor
Subtitle: An Inside Narrative
Contributors: Milton R. Stern (Editor)
Edition: [1st ed.] edition
Series: The Library of Literature, 43
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1974 December
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780672514661
Subjects: Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Billy Budd; Melville, Herman; Ship captains; Executions and executioners; Fiction; Impressment; Sailors
First sentence: In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty.