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Billy Budd, Sailor
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novella by Herman Melville
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- Author
- Herman Melville
- First published
- 1982
- Editions
- 6
- Subjects
- fiction classics, literary fiction, Fiction, Young men, Copyists, open_syllabus_project, classic literature, Psychology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Country of origin
- United States
- Image
- Houghton MS Am 188 (363) - Billy Budd manuscript 1.jpg
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- title
- Billy Budd, Sailor
- publication date
- 1924-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- Billy Budd
- copyright status
- public domain
- first line
- In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port 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.
- last line
- Just ease this darbies at the wrist, and roll me over fair, I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.
- derivative work
- Billy Budd
- set in environment
- ship
- form of creative work
- novel
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