Billy Budd by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: drama

On the eve of war with revolutionary France, the British navy is stretched thin, and suspicion of mutiny hangs over every deck. Into this tense world steps Billy Budd, a young sailor pressed into service and assigned to the warship HMS Bellipotent. Handsome, hardworking, and widely liked, Billy seems the very image of innocence - until his presence stirs jealousy and fear in the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart. As discipline tightens and rumors spread, an accusation places Billy in the sights of Captain Edward Fairfax Vere, a thoughtful commander torn between sympathy for the individual and duty to naval law. Confined by the rigid codes that keep a fighting ship afloat, Vere must weigh conscience against authority while the crew watches, aware that a single decision could ripple into unrest. Herman Melville's final, haunting novella becomes a chamber drama at sea, probing the costs of obedience, the ambiguity of justice, and the uneasy line between goodness and guilt. With the ocean as both backdrop and pressure cooker, Billy Budd builds toward a moral crisis in which character and command collide.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:21) Chapter 02

(00:34:57) Chapter 03

(00:54:09) Chapter 04

(01:13:26) Chapter 05

(01:26:44) Chapter 06

(01:40:10) Chapter 07

(02:05:07) Chapter 08

(02:29:59) Chapter 09

(02:45:54) Chapter 10

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