An edition of Typee (1840)

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An edition of Typee (1840)

Typee

a peep at Polynesian life

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At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial, "civilized" world of the nineteenth century.

But Melville's story of Tommo, the Yankee sailor who enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva, is also a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's own Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual. This edition of Typee, which reproduces the definitive text and the complete, never-before-published manuscript reading text, includes invaluable explanatory commentary by John Bryant.

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Northwestern University Press
Language
English
Pages
374

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Fiction, Indigenous peoples, Sailors, Social life and customs, American Sea stories, Description and travel, Gift books, Autobiographical fiction, Sea stories, Adventure stories, Classic Literature, Literature, Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), open_syllabus_project, Polynesia, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, American literature, Novela estadounidense, Captivity, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Marins, General, American Fiction, Indigenous peoples--fiction, Captivity--fiction, Sailors--fiction, Ps2384 .t8 2001, 813/.3, Fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, general, Biography, Drama (dramatic works by one author)

People

Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Places

Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), Marquesas Islands, Oceania, Polynesia

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Typee: a peep at Polynesian life
1973, Northwestern University Press
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Typee, a peep at Polynesian life
1964, New American Library
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1963, Russell & Russell
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Typee: Life in the South Seas
1902, D. C. Heath & co.
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Typee: A Real Romance of the South Sea
1892, the Page companypublishers
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Typee: a real romance of the South Seas
1892, A. L. Burt
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Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a peep at Polynesian life
1846, J.Murray
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The writings of Herman Melville -- 1, Nortwestern-Newberry edition

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xiv,374p. :
Number of pages
374

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OL22292613M
ISBN 10
0810101599
LCCN
68002173
OCLC/WorldCat
279698
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