Typee
a peep at Polynesian life
by Herman Melville
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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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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)Showing 11 featured editions. View all 198 editions?
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Typee: a peep at Polynesian life
2001, Modern Library
in English
- Modern Library paperback ed.
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