Billy Budd, Sailor, also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1924
Author: Herman Melville
Characters: Captain Vere, John Claggart, Dansker, and more
Age: age twenty-one
Genre: Adventure fiction, sea story
Text: Billy Budd at Wikisource