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Billy Budd, Sailor
By Herman Melville
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about a handsome young sailor popular with his mates who is falsely accused of hatching a mutinous conspiracy. His accuser is master at arms John Claggart, who envies Billy and who is described as “defective or abnormal” and “possessing a natural depravity”. Upon learning of the charges, ship’s captain Vere summons the two to his cabin. When Claggart states his case, Billy, who stutters, cannot respond and in frustration strikes Claggart dead. The captain recognizes that Billy’s action bore no malice and that he is morally innocent, yet he is duty-bound to conduct court-martial proceedings.
Melville labored fitfully on the story for five years, yet it was unfinished at the time of Melville’s death in 1891. His widow, Elizabeth, discovered the 351 leaves of manuscript in a chaotic state, with a dizzying array of corrections, annotations, cancellations, and cut and pasted leaves. She attempted to organize the multiple drafts into a coherent storyline but ended up stashing the manuscript in a tin box. It was discovered in 1919 at his granddaughter’s house by Raymond M. Weaver, a Columbia professor researching a biography of Melville. Scholars have since determined that it was written in three phases, with each of the three main characters added at each phase. Billy Budd was at last published by Weaver in 1924 and again in 1928, and was hailed as a masterpiece, standing alongside Moby-Dick as one of the great books of all time.
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Product Details
Read by: | Scientific Advocate |
Length: | 3 hours and 7 minutes |
Type: | Solo readings |
Media: | MP3 CD |
Package: | CD security sleeve |
Item No.: | CD-1321 |
List Price: | $3.99 |
Artwork: | Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing |
CD label art: | Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats |
CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
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Book Coordinator: Scientific Advocate
Meta Coordinator: MaryAnn
Proof Listener: KevinS
Artwork
Cover: A British Man of War before the Rock of Gibraltar, c. 1800, by Thomas Whitcombe.
Inset: First page of "Billy Budd", 1924.
Inset: Herman Melville, 1885.
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Table of Contents
Track | Title | Duration |
1 | 01 - Chapter 1 | 16:16 |
2 | 02 - Chapters 2-4 | 18:36 |
3 | 03 - Chapters 5-7 | 19:12 |
4 | 04 - Chapters 8-10 | 19:17 |
5 | 05 - Chapters 11-12 | 13:18 |
6 | 06 - Chapters 13-15 | 13:26 |
7 | 07 - Chapters 16-17 | 24:57 |
8 | 08 - Chapter 18 | 24:52 |
9 | 09 - Chapters 19-21 | 15:55 |
10 | 10 - Chapters 22-26 | 21:05 |
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