The sailor hanged for a blow he did not mean to strike, together with the shorter prose Melville left unpublished.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.
Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces : The Sailor Hanged for a Blow He Did Not Mean
Geschrieben von Herman Melville
