A handsome, guileless young sailor impressed into a British warship in 1797 draws the inexplicable hatred of the master-at-arms, Claggart, and Captain Vere must judge what follows. Raymond Weaver’s volume adds the sketch Daniel Orme, the London and New York diptych The Two Temples, late manuscript pieces and the magazine work Melville never reprinted.
The first appearance in print of Melville’s final masterpiece, left in manuscript at his death in 1891. Download the free EPUB.