Billy Budd

'Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colours, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.' Sadly left unfinished by his death in 1891, Melville's novella Billy Budd is acclaimed by critics and quickly took its place in the literary canon. Billy Bu...