Billy Budd & Typee (Cliffs Notes)

By Herman Melville

Book Overview

Forty years separate the writing of these books, and Melville's moral concerns are highly visible in Billy Budd, in which a young sailor willingly accepts his punishment after accidentally killing an evil man. In Typee, Melville romanticized his own adventures as a merchant seaman on a Polynesian island. Typee is generally considered nothing more than adventure and travel writing, whereas Billy Budd is open to interpretation and is considered a much more literary work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822002388
• ISBN13: 9780822002383
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Cliff Notes
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"