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The Question and Answer section for Billy Budd is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Captain the Honorable Edward Fairfax Vere: Known as "Starry Vere," the captain is an erudite man and an efficient officer. Intelligent and well-read, he is sometimes criticized behind his back for being a touch too in love with abstractions and...
Set in 1797, the novel's time period matches with the beginning of the end of the French Revolution, and also with the mutinies of Spithead and Nore that occurred in the British Royal Navy
What we do know is that Billy Budd today is ranked as one of Melville's greatest works, and one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. It is difficult for me to fine literary weakness other than my own personal bias. Could you see any...
