Herman Melville, Billy Budd

Since I’m talking Melville, let me also recommend another one of his sea stories. Well, let me recommend them all, at that, from Typee onward. But his last one, Billy Budd, left unfinished at his death, was published about a century back in 1924 & has inspired artists now & again. Thomas Mann & D.H. Lawrence both praised its beauty. English critics made…