A beautifully designed classic edition of Melvilles original tale...discovered unfinished in the authors desk shortly after his death. Billy Budd a cheerful good looking sailor with a natural charisma and innocence that makes him popular with the crew is aboard a British ship during the Napoleonic wars. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense stress. Budd arouses the antagonism of the ships bitter masteratarms John Claggart who falsely accuses Billy of conspi