Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1): A Peep at Polynesian Life : a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas : and a Voyage Thither (Library of America Herman Melville Edition)
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| Management number | 231630615 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$7.89 | Model Number | 231630615 | ||
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This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the "cannibals" in Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the 20th century. Mardi("the world" in Polynesian) is a mixture of love story, adventure, and political allegory, set on a mythical Pacific island, that looks forward to the complexities of Moby-Dick. Together, these three romances give early evidence of the genius and daring that make Melville the master novelist of the sea and a precursor of modernist literature. Two companion volumes--Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick and Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence Man, Uncollected Prose, and Billy Budd complete this edition of Melville's prose. Read more
| ASIN | B00L3SY3O2 |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1598533453 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 2.8 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Library of America |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Reading age | 18 years and up |
| Print length | 1332 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | May 6, 1982 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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