Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810101593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Describes the adventures of a sailor who jumps ship at a south sea island inhabited by cannibals, a voyage around Polynesia, and a quest for an elusive beauty among the islands of a tropical archipelago.
Typee
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810101593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Describes the adventures of a sailor who jumps ship at a south sea island inhabited by cannibals, a voyage around Polynesia, and a quest for an elusive beauty among the islands of a tropical archipelago.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810101593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Describes the adventures of a sailor who jumps ship at a south sea island inhabited by cannibals, a voyage around Polynesia, and a quest for an elusive beauty among the islands of a tropical archipelago.
Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1)
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Typee
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
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Category : Indigenous peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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Category : Indigenous peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Library of John Quinn ...
Author: John Quinn
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Catalogue
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, 1876
Author: New South Wales. Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Maggs Bros. Catalogues
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Herman Melville
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780238665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Herman Melville is hailed as one of the greats—if not the greatest—of American literature. Born in New York in 1819, he first achieved recognition for his daring stylistic innovations, but it was Moby-Dick that would win him global fame. In this new critical biography, Kevin J. Hayes surveys Melville’s major works and sheds new light on the writer’s unpredictable professional and personal life. Hayes opens the book with an exploration of the revival of interest in Melville’s work thirty years after his death, which coincided with the aftermath of World War I and the rise of modernism. He goes on to examine the composition and reception of Melville’s works, including his first two books, Typee and Omoo, and the novels, short fiction, and poetry he wrote during the forty years after the publication of Moby-Dick. Incorporating a wealth of new information about Melville’s life and the times in which he lived, the book is a concise and engaging introduction to the life of a celebrated but often misunderstood writer.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780238665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Herman Melville is hailed as one of the greats—if not the greatest—of American literature. Born in New York in 1819, he first achieved recognition for his daring stylistic innovations, but it was Moby-Dick that would win him global fame. In this new critical biography, Kevin J. Hayes surveys Melville’s major works and sheds new light on the writer’s unpredictable professional and personal life. Hayes opens the book with an exploration of the revival of interest in Melville’s work thirty years after his death, which coincided with the aftermath of World War I and the rise of modernism. He goes on to examine the composition and reception of Melville’s works, including his first two books, Typee and Omoo, and the novels, short fiction, and poetry he wrote during the forty years after the publication of Moby-Dick. Incorporating a wealth of new information about Melville’s life and the times in which he lived, the book is a concise and engaging introduction to the life of a celebrated but often misunderstood writer.
The Works of Herman Melville
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description