MELVILLE: Billy Budd
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A maritime classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. Written some forty years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus...
A maritime classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. Written some forty years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a young, innocent sailor's charm and good nature put the men around him at ease. Ship-life agreed with Billy. He made friends quickly and was well liked, which infuriated John Claggart, the ship's cold-blooded superior officer. Mutiny was a continual threat greatly feared by naval officers. Even minor offences were dealt with harshly to keep crews in their place - regardless of whether the accused was guilty or innocent. The envious Master-at-Arms becomes obsessed with the destruction of the 'Handsome Sailor' and torments the young man until his false accusations lead to an eventual charge of treason against Billy.
Billy Budd (more info)
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Chapter 1: In the time before steamships, - 08:28
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Chapter 1: Now while Billy Budd was down in the forecastle - 06:34
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Chapter 1: The transfer from chest to bag was made. - 04:12
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Chapter 2: Though our new-made foretopman - 09:31
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Chapter 3: At the time of Billy Budd's arbitrary enlistment - 05:33
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Chapter 4: In this matter of writing - 05:41
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Chapter 5: Yes, the outbreak at the Nore was put down. - 02:30
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Chapter 6: But on board the seventy-four - 05:01
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Chapter 7: In view of the part that the Commander - 04:10
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Chapter 8: The lieutenants and other commissioned gentlemen - 10:08
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Chapter 9: Life in the fore-top well agreed with Billy Budd. - 08:38
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Chapter 10: The next day - 03:11
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Chapter 11: What was the matter with the Master-at-Arms? - 09:03
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Chapter 12: Lawyers, Experts, Clergy - An Episode. - 01:11
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Chapter 13: That Claggart's figure was not amiss. - 04:12
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Chapter 14: Passion, and passion in its profoundest, - 04:33
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Chapter 15: Not many days after the last incident narrated, - 05:50
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Chapter 16: This incident sorely puzzled Billy Budd. - 06:04
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Chapter 17: Yes, despite the Dansker's pithy insistence - 03:12
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Chapter 18: But after the little matter at the mess - 06:01
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Chapter 19: After the mysterious interview in the fore-chains - 09:49
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Chapter 19: Now the handsome sailor, - 06:56
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Chapter 20: Now when the Foretopman found himself closeted there, - 09:22
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Chapter 21: Full of disquietude and misgiving - 01:45
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Chapter 22: Who in the rainbow can draw the line - 07:09
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Chapter 22: All being quickly in readiness, - 09:38
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Chapter 22: When speak he did, - 07:16
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Chapter 22: Can we not convict and yet mitigate the penalty? - 05:17
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Chapter 23: It was Captain Vere himself - 02:49
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Chapter 24: Of a series of incidents within a brief term - 05:26
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Chapter 25: In a seventy-four of the old order - 09:44
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Chapter 26: The night, so luminous on the spar-deck, - 05:01
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Chapter 27: A Digression. - 03:16
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Chapter 28: The silence at the moment of execution - 06:29
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Chapter 29: The symmetry of form attainable - 03:07
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Chapter 30: Some few weeks after the execution, - 03:03
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Chapter 31: Everything is for a term remarkable in navies. - 04:25