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Loading... Typee, Omoo, Mardiby Herman Melville
None. Two wonderful autobiographical novels and one wacked out allegory. (  ) Coach_of_Alva | Mar 12, 2011 |  Lots of great stuff in Typee, but (as with Moby Dick) most of it is in the first 20% of the book. Starts off being about race and colonialism, ends up being about sexy Polynesian chicks weaving napkins. (  ) GeoffWyss | Sep 11, 2009 | I love Melville! Therefore, my objectivity is somewhat lacking. I read this volume some 30 nyears ago. This was an excellent book (i.e., a 5 on a 5 point scale), which is much more than I expect when I buy a book. This contains Melville's early works. These are adventure stories of sailing in the South Seas. He is a competent writer with a very good vocabulary. His plot development is at times slow. His character development is good. I was fully involved. But, there was for one long passage (100 plus pages?) of a seemingly endless description of floating in a canoe. Positives: This is a Library of America book. Negatives: Descriptions are too long at times. The first book is this volume is 'Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life'. The second book is 'Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas'. The third book is 'Mardi: and A Voyage Thither'. (  ) TChesney | Feb 25, 2009 | a unique look at life in the south pacific ( ) theidiot | Sep 1, 2006 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0940450003, Hardcover)This first volume of The Library of America's 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.(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:48:56 -0500) No library descriptions found. |
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