# Billy Budd

Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Weaver, Raymond M. (Raymond Melbourne), 1888-1948 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76513

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Billy+Budd+Melville&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

‘Billy Budd,’ the title-piece of this volume, is a novel finished by Melville five months before his death in 1891, and never before published. ‘Daniel Orme’ is a sketch ‘omitted from _Billy Budd_.’ The fourth piece--‘The Two Temples’--was on May 12, 1854, refused by _Putnam’s Monthly Magazine_ out of a fear of offending the religious sensibilities of the congregation of Grace Church, New York. This volume concludes with eight sketches surviving in manuscript, written, in all probability, after Melville’s retirement in 1886, at the age of sixty-seven, from his post as Inspector of Customs in New York City. Except for his letters, journals, and the juvenile ‘Fragments from a Writing Desk,’...

## Chapters

- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/billy-budd-76513/chapters/1/index.md)