About this book
Adaptation.
- Fiction, sea stories
- Children's fiction
- Short stories
- Readers for new literates
- Sailors
- Fiction
Reader reviews
Josh60/100
Meh, not for me. Billy Budd is a handsome sailor who is falsely accused, for reasons that are never entirely clear, of fomenting mutiny. When these charges are brought he stutters but can't get out a reply and finally punches his accuser, killing him. There's a trial and he is executed. Budd's story is the type of that philosophers and legal scholars like to ponder over because the facts are not…
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