Typee
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 813/.3
- adventure stories
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- american sea stories
- autobiographical fiction
- biography
- captivity
- captivity--fiction
- classic literature
- description and travel
- drama (dramatic works by one author)
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, thrillers, general
- general
- gift books
- indigenous peoples
- indigenous peoples--fiction
- large type books
- literature
- manners and customs
- marins
- marquesas islands (french polynesia)
- modern history
- mœurs et coutumes
- novela estadounidense
- open_syllabus_project
- polynesia, fiction
- ps2384 .t8 2001
- romance norte americano
- romans, nouvelles
- sailors
- sailors--fiction
- sea stories
- social life and customs