Melville, H.: Billy Budd (Unabridged)

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Billy Budd (more info)
Herman Melville,


1. Chapter 1: In the time before steamships, - 8:28
2. Chapter 1: Now while Billy Budd was down in the forecastle - 6:34
3. Chapter 1: The transfer from chest to bag was made. - 4:12
4. Chapter 2: Though our new-made foretopman - 9:31
5. Chapter 3: At the time of Billy Budd's arbitrary enlistment - 5:33
6. Chapter 4: In this matter of writing - 5:41
7. Chapter 5: Yes, the outbreak at the Nore was put down. - 2:30
8. Chapter 6: But on board the seventy-four - 5:01
9. Chapter 7: In view of the part that the Commander - 4:10
10.   Chapter 8: The lieutenants and other commissioned gentlemen - 10:08
11. Chapter 9: Life in the fore-top well agreed with Billy Budd. - 8:38
12. Chapter 10: The next day - 3:11

Billy Budd (more info)
Herman Melville,


1. Chapter 11: What was the matter with the Master-at-Arms? - 9:03
2. Chapter 12: Lawyers, Experts, Clergy - An Episode. - 1:11
3. Chapter 13: That Claggart's figure was not amiss. - 4:12
4. Chapter 14: Passion, and passion in its profoundest, - 4:33
5. Chapter 15: Not many days after the last incident narrated, - 5:50
6. Chapter 16: This incident sorely puzzled Billy Budd. - 6:04
7. Chapter 17: Yes, despite the Dansker's pithy insistence - 3:12
8. Chapter 18: But after the little matter at the mess - 6:01
9. Chapter 19: After the mysterious interview in the fore-chains - 9:49
10.   Chapter 19: Now the handsome sailor, - 6:56
11. Chapter 20: Now when the Foretopman found himself closeted there, - 9:22
12. Chapter 21: Full of disquietude and misgiving - 1:45

Billy Budd (more info)
Herman Melville,


1. Chapter 22: Who in the rainbow can draw the line - 7:09
2. Chapter 22: All being quickly in readiness, - 9:38
3. Chapter 22: When speak he did, - 7:16
4. Chapter 22: Can we not convict and yet mitigate the penalty? - 5:17
5. Chapter 23: It was Captain Vere himself - 2:49
6. Chapter 24: Of a series of incidents within a brief term - 5:26
7. Chapter 25: In a seventy-four of the old order - 9:44
8. Chapter 26: The night, so luminous on the spar-deck, - 5:01
9. Chapter 27: A Digression. - 3:16
10.   Chapter 28: The silence at the moment of execution - 6:29
11. Chapter 29: The symmetry of form attainable - 3:07
12. Chapter 30: Some few weeks after the execution, - 3:03
13. Chapter 31: Everything is for a term remarkable in navies. - 4:25

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