Author: Herman Melville
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Herman Melville
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Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Herman Melville
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Herman Melville
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main inducement" in altering his plan for his third book, 'Mardi: and a Voyage Thither' (1849). Melville wanted to exploit the "rich poetical material" of Polynesia and also to escape feeling "irked, cramped, & fettered" by a narrative of facts. "I began to feel . . . a longing to plume my pinions for a flight," he told his English publisher.Font used in this annotated edition is Baskerville - 12.

Author: Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West (Norwood, Ohio). Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Herman Melville
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Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Languages : en
Pages : 1392

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Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 832

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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Author: Lucius Beebee Memorial Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 324

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