01024cam a2200193 4500 264284522 TxAuBib 20111020120000.0 031104s1963||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Melville, Herman. Billy Budd & Typee. New York, NY : Washington Square Press, Inc, 1963. 405 p. With a critical introduction by Maxwell Geismar. 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. 20031104. TXHAM