Billy Budd-Herman Melville

Short Story Collection Vol. 104.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016.A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories by Julia Darrow Cowles.In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance as well as in literary form.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 002.This volume includes Various Detectives, Cute Animals, Talking Fireworks, and Interesting People and Situations: See cast list for authors and book/story names.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a thought-provoking short story by Herman Melville that explores themes of individuality, conformity, and the complexities of the human condition. Set against the backdrop of Wall Street, the narrative follows a scrivener named Bartleby, whose passive resistance to the demands of his job raises profound questions about work, autonomy, and the nature of existence. Melville's poignant portrayal of Bartleby’s enigmatic character invites listeners to reflect on the societal pressures that shape our lives and the struggle for personal agency. This timeless tale remains relevant today, as it challenges us to consider the balance between duty and self-identity in an increasingly demanding world.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville.On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her aloof and disturbed captain, Benito Cereno, the story of how this ship came to be where she is.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Piazza by Herman Melville.The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what have long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.) Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain audiobook.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville."Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Billy Budd by Herman Melville.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.Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville.Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from print news sources (especially the Rebellion Record) and from family and friends. A handful of trips Melville took before, during, and after the war provide additional angles of vision into the battles, the personalities, and the moods of war. In an opening note, Melville describes his project not so much as a systematic chronicle (though many of the individual poems refer to specific events) but as a kind of memory piece of national experience. The “aspects” to which he refers in the title are as diverse as “the moods of involuntary meditation—moods variable, and at times widely at variance.”Featured on Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.