Herman Melville's Novella Billy Budd, Sailor was not published until 1924, thirty-three years after his death. The literary world was in the midst of the Melville revival, suggesting that his themes of existential dread, guilt and innocence, right and wrong, and the conflict between what is good verses what is allowed had become salient to readers in the 1920s. The lads find it to be an absolute masterpiece: delightful in it's language, haunting in its human insight.
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