Billy Budd - MP3 CD audiobook in DVD case

Description: Billy Budd, Sailor 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. Play sample: Product Details Read by: Scientific Advocate Length: 3 hours and 7 minutes Type: Solo readings Media: MP3 CD Package: DVD case Item No.: DB-1321 EAN: 0687700170327 List Price: $9.99 Credits Production 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. The Recordings About MP3 Audio This MP3 digital audiobook is duplicated on compact disc in the MP3 audio format and is designed to play on any computer. It will play on CD and DVD players that are designed with MP3 capability. The files contained in an MP3 CD can be imported and played on mobile devices such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and smart phones and on PSP (Play Station Portable) and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) devices. 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We spend considerable time and effort to ensure the recordings are free of noise, equalized for maximum listener pleasure, and that tracks are leveled and normalized to provide a consistent listening experience. 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 Terms and Conditions Terms of Sale The buyer can pay using the Checkout button when the listing ends or wait to receive an automated email invoice shortly after the listing ends with totals and payment instructions. Checkout must be completed within 7 days of the close of listing. If payment isn’t received within this time period, the item will be re-listed and a Non-Paying Bidder alert will be filed. 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