Billy Budd by Herman Melville, Adventure, Audiobook

Billy Budd by Herman Melville, Adventure, Audiobook Tip jar: Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summarily convicted in a drumhead court martial, and hanged. Billy Budd is the final published work by Herman Melville, discovered in his personal papers three decades after his death. Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel MobyDick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a bestseller), but after a fastblooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. Read by: ScientificMethodist