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Who wrote:
"Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)" (1924)
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| Herman Melville |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Billy Budd is a seaman impressed into service aboard HMS Bellipotent in the year 1797. He is falsely charged with mutiny by the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart, who he kills. He is then sentenced to hang by the Captain Edward Fairfax "Starry" Vere. It was left it unfinished at Melville's death in 1891.
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The correct answer was Herman Melville
Billy Budd is a seaman impressed into service aboard HMS Bellipotent in the year 1797. He is falsely charged with mutiny by the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart, who he kills. He is then sentenced to hang by the Captain Edward Fairfax "Starry" Vere. It was left it unfinished at Melville's death in 1891.
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