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Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891.
A classic short story by Herman Melville about a young sailor who accidentally kills the master-at-arms of his ship and is condemned to death by his captain. Learn about the plot, characters, themes, and historical context of this literary masterpiece.
- Lawrence Thompson, Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Merton M. Sealts
- 1924
Billy Budd, Sailor is a novel by Herman Melville that the author was working on at the time of his death in 1891 and that was first published in 1924.
The narrator describes Billy Budd, a handsome, good-natured young sailor who is taken from his merchant ship, the Rights-of-Man, into service on a British Royal Navy warship, the Indomitable (in some editions, the Bellipotent).
Summary. Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Herman Melville's Billy Budd. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. Billy Budd: Introduction. A concise biography of Herman Melville plus historical and literary context for Billy Budd. Billy Budd: Plot Summary.
Billy Budd. by Herman Melville. The novel, Billy Budd was Melville's first work of fiction after thirty years publishing poetry. He wrote it in 1888, but he died with it unfinished. Melville's biographer found it in a trunk of the writer's papers in his granddaughter's New Jersey home in 1919.
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In certain matters, some sailors even in mature life remain unsophisticated enough. But a young seafarer of the disposition of our athletic Foretopman, is much of a child-man. And yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.
