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Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
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Billy Budd, Sailor is available as an online textPublishing History
Written during Melville's retirement, between 1885 and 1891, Billy Budd was never completely finished.The manuscript was discovered among Melville's papers during the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s; it contains many unclearly indicated revisions and corrections regarding which the author's final intentions are uncertain.
The first American edition, edited by Raymond Weaver, was published in 1924.
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Since then the text has undergone a number of revisions as scholars attempt to present Melville's readers with a more definitive version. Chief among these are Weaver's second edition (1928), the "literal text" of F. Barron Freeman (1948), and Hayford and Sealts's double texts.
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