In the canon
Billy Budd
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1924
- Pages
- Pages 130
A press gang takes a beautiful, illiterate sailor onto a warship, where the master-at-arms accuses him of mutiny for no reason. He cannot get the words out, so he strikes the man dead, and the captain who believes him innocent hangs him.
Struck dead by an angel of God. Yet the angel must hang!
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