Billy Budd

While ''Moby Dick'' is Herman Melville’s best known book, ''Billy Budd, Sailor'' is considered by many to be his greatest work. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. He arouses the antagonism of the ship’s master-at-arms, John Clagg...