Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1) by Herman Melville

Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1) by Herman Melville

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.

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ISBN 13	9780940450004
ISBN 10	0940450003
Title	Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1)
Author	Herman Melville
Series	Library Of America Herman Melville Edition
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The Library of America
Year published	1982-05-06
Number of pages	1333
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