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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by Herman Melville, Robert Milder (Editor), Virgil Virgil Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953891-3 / 0199538913 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953891-1 / 9780199538911 `Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, `In this short history of the impressment and hanging of |