Title: Billy Budd
Author: Herman Melville
Published: 1924
Genre: Adventure

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"Billy Budd" by Herman Melville is a novella in the Adventure genre, first published 1924.

Copyright: The first edition was published in 1924, thirty years after Melville died. Revised editions followed in 1948 and 1962, but the book is now in the public domain as it is over 75 years since the death of the identified author, and over 75 years since first publication.

Notes: Published posthumously, thirty years after Melville's death.