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Billy Bud and Typee (Cliffs notes study guide)
Billy Bud and Typee - Cliffs notes study guide Author:Herman Melville and Mary Ellen Snodgrass 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 mor... more »e than adventure and travel writing, whereas Billy Budd is open to interpretation and is considered a much more literary work.« less