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Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor (unabridged)

Read by William Roberts

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Contents

Herman Melville: Billy Budd

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Chapter 1: In the time before steamships,

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Chapter 1: Now while Billy Budd was down in the forecastle

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Chapter 1: The transfer from chest to bag was made.

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Chapter 2: Though our new-made foretopman

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Chapter 3: At the time of Billy Budd's arbitrary enlistment

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Chapter 4: In this matter of writing

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Chapter 5: Yes, the outbreak at the Nore was put down.

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Chapter 6: But on board the seventy-four

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Chapter 7: In view of the part that the Commander

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Chapter 8: The lieutenants and other commissioned gentlemen

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Chapter 9: Life in the fore-top well agreed with Billy Budd.

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Chapter 10: The next day

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Chapter 11: What was the matter with the Master-at-Arms?

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Chapter 12: Lawyers, Experts, Clergy - An Episode.

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Chapter 13: That Claggart's figure was not amiss.

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Chapter 14: Passion, and passion in its profoundest,

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Chapter 15: Not many days after the last incident narrated,

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Chapter 16: This incident sorely puzzled Billy Budd.

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Chapter 17: Yes, despite the Dansker's pithy insistence

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Chapter 18: But after the little matter at the mess

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Chapter 19: After the mysterious interview in the fore-chains

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Chapter 19: Now the handsome sailor,

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Chapter 20: Now when the Foretopman found himself closeted there,

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Chapter 21: Full of disquietude and misgiving

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Chapter 22: Who in the rainbow can draw the line

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Chapter 22: All being quickly in readiness,

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Chapter 22: When speak he did,

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Chapter 22: Can we not convict and yet mitigate the penalty?

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Chapter 23: It was Captain Vere himself

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Chapter 24: Of a series of incidents within a brief term

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Chapter 25: In a seventy-four of the old order

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Chapter 26: The night, so luminous on the spar-deck,

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Chapter 27: A Digression.

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Chapter 28: The silence at the moment of execution

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Chapter 29: The symmetry of form attainable

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Chapter 30: Some few weeks after the execution,

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Chapter 31: Everything is for a term remarkable in navies.

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