| An excellent resource 
                    for studying Melville's Billy Budd: 
 | This 
                  website is dedicated to helping students of literature -- 
                  at all levels -- better understand Herman Melville's complex 
                  short novel, Billy Budd. [ . . . ] Nothing in this site will 
                  provide definitive answers to the difficult questions which 
                  this text raises, nor will it provide a template for the student 
                  seeking a quick and easy solution to the various problems it 
                  poses. Rather, this site should serve merely to enrich one's 
                  reading of Billy Budd by providing readily more information 
                  than otherwise might be accessible to most students. [ . . . 
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