Typee : A Peep at Polynesian Life - Herman Melville

Typee

A Peep at Polynesian Life

By: Herman Melville

Paperback | 1 January 1996 | Edition Number 1

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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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"A classic of American literature [and] the pioneer in South Sea romance." - Arthur Stedman

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