num_pages: 80
description: 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.
language: English
title: Billy Budd & Typee
titlecomplete: Billy Budd & Typee (Cliffs Notes)
genres: Reference, Fiction
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Cliff Notes