{"product_id":"billy-budd-sailor-hardcover","title":"Billy Budd, Sailor - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published posthumously in 1924, \u003cem\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/em\u003e is Herman Melville's final and most concentrated meditation on innocence, authority, and moral conflict at sea.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet aboard a British warship during the closing years of the eighteenth century, the novella follows Billy Budd, an impressed sailor whose physical beauty and unguarded nature stand in stark contrast to the rigid discipline of naval life. When false accusation leads to sudden violence, the ship's command must confront a conflict between martial law and moral intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelville renders the maritime world with controlled intensity, presenting the sea not as romantic spectacle but as a closed moral universe governed by duty and hierarchy. Captain Vere's decision-made within the strictures of naval code-has provoked sustained critical debate, positioning the work as a philosophical inquiry into justice, obedience, and the tragic limits of goodness within institutional systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompact yet profound, \u003cem\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the central American works of late nineteenth-century literature and a defining maritime novella.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Billy Budd, Sailor\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.6\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46117838389434,"sku":"9781515442073","price":25.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/5727\/8650\/files\/hHFnUftwVJ9781515442073.webp?v=1783442942","url":"https:\/\/thebookloversatlas.com\/products\/billy-budd-sailor-hardcover","provider":"The Book Lover's Atlas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}