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Author(s): Melville, Herman
Reader(s): Roberts, William
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA330012
Barcode: 0730099030021
Release Date: 08/2003
MELVILLE, H.: Billy Budd (Unabridged)
A sea classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. Billy Budd, a sailor on a merchantman, is ‘pressed’ into service on HMS Indomitable during the Napoleonic Wars. He is popular among the crew, but is victimised by a brutal master-at-arms and tragedy becomes inevitable. Published posthumously, Billy Budd, Sailor was championed by EM Forster and has since been recognised as a major work in Melville’s oeuvre.
Tracklist
Disc 1
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1 | Chapter 1: In the time before steamships… | 08:28 |
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2 | Now while Billy Budd was down in the forecastle… | 06:34 |
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3 | The transfer from chest to bag was made. | 04:12 |
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4 | Chapter 2: Though our new-made foretopman… | 09:31 |
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5 | Chapter 3: At the time of Billy Budd's… | 05:33 |
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6 | Chapter 4: In this matter of writing… | 05:41 |
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7 | Chapter 5: Yes, the outbreak at the Nore… | 02:30 |
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8 | Chapter 6: But on board the seventy-four… | 05:01 |
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9 | Chapter 7: In view of the part… | 04:10 |
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10 | Chapter 8: The lieutenants and other… | 10:08 |
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11 | Chapter 9: Life in the fore-top well agreed… | 08:38 |
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12 | Chapter 10: The next day… | 03:11 |
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Disc 2
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1 | Chapter 11: What was the matter… | 09:03 |
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2 | Chapter 12: Lawyers, Experts, Clergy | 01:11 |
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3 | Chapter 13: That Claggart's figure… | 04:12 |
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4 | Chapter 14: Passion, and passion… | 04:33 |
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5 | Chapter 15: Not many days after… | 05:50 |
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6 | Chapter 16: This incident sorely puzzled… | 06:04 |
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7 | Chapter 17: Yes, despite the Dansker's… | 03:12 |
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8 | Chapter 18: But after the little matter… | 06:01 |
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9 | Chapter 19: After the mysterious interview… | 09:49 |
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10 | Now the handsome sailor, | 06:56 |
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11 | Chapter 20: Now when the Foretopman found… | 09:22 |
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12 | Chapter 21: Full of disquietude and misgiving… | 01:45 |
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Disc 3
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1 | Chapter 22: Who in the rainbow can draw… | 07:09 |
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2 | All being quickly in readiness, | 09:38 |
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3 | When speak he did, | 07:16 |
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4 | Can we not convict and yet mitigate the penalty? | 05:17 |
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5 | Chapter 23: It was Captain Vere himself… | 02:49 |
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6 | Chapter 24: Of a series of incidents… | 05:26 |
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7 | Chapter 25: In a seventy-four of the old order… | 09:44 |
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8 | Chapter 26: The night, so luminous… | 05:01 |
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9 | Chapter 27: A Digression. | 03:16 |
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10 | Chapter 28: The silence at the moment… | 06:29 |
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11 | Chapter 29: The symmetry of form attainable… | 03:07 |
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12 | Chapter 30: Some few weeks after… | 03:03 |
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13 | Chapter 31: Everything is for a term remarkable… | 04:25 |
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Total Playing Time: 03:34:15