Billy Budd: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Billy Budd, credited to Herman Melville, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Read in English by ScientificMethodist. Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summarily convicted in a drum-head court martial, and hanged. Billy Budd is the final published work by Herman Melville, discovered in his personal papers three decades after his death. (Summary by ScientificMethodist)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Billy Budd
• Author credits: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 3:06:59

Catalogue topics

• military
• Law
• justice
• navy
• death penalty

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 16:21
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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Source and rights

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