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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-100822002388
ISBN-139780822002383
eBay Product ID (ePID)380315
Product Key Features
Book TitleBilly Budd and Typee
Number of Pages80 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAmerican / General
Publication Year1968
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorCliffs Notes Staff, Mary Ellen Snodgrass
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight3.3 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisForty 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., 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.