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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780940450004
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 0940450003
Label: Library of America
Manufacturer: Library of America
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1333
Publication Date: May 06, 1982
Publisher: Library of America
Studio: Library of America
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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.
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I have said in a few other reviews that I like the LoA very much. The 3 volume Melville edition is no exception. And yet!
The normal size of the volumes is around 800 to 1000 pages. This first volume of Melville with Typee, Omoo, and Mardi, gets to nearly 1400. That is more than can be conveniently handled, and the main problem is, that space has been saved in the bio and notes sections. The LoA volumes usually include a useful summary of the writer's biography and a section of notes on the ... Read More
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Among the early products of the wonderful Library of America Series were three volumes devoted to the novels of Herman Melville. This volume consists of Melville's first three novels, Typee(1846), Omoo(1847) and Mardi (1849)
Melville's novels are based, more or less loosely, on his life at sea. The first two novels describe voyages to the Marquesas and to Tahiti. They are filled with lush descriptions of scenery, and tales of adventure. Of the two, Typee is filled with encounters with ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780940450004
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 0940450003
Label: Library of America
Manufacturer: Library of America
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1333
Publication Date: May 06, 1982
Publisher: Library of America
Studio: Library of America