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Typee : a peep at Polynesian life ; Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas ; Mardi, and a voyage thither

Title
Typee : a peep at Polynesian life ; Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas ; Mardi, and a voyage thither / Herman Melville.
Author
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Publication
New York : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by the Viking Press, [1982], ©1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934-
  • Campbell, Bruce
  • Scudellari, R. D.
Description
1333 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
"These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of these fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville's own life in the early 1840s"--Jacket.
Series Statement
The Library of America ; 1
Uniform Title
Library of America ; 1.
Alternative Title
  • Omoo.
  • Mardi, and a voyage thither.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Fictional autobiographies.
  • Sea fiction.
  • Action and adventure fiction.
  • Fiction.
Note
  • "G. Thomas Tanselle wrote the notes and chronology and selected the texts for this volume"--Preliminary p. [3].
  • Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Typee -- Omoo -- Mardi.
ISBN
  • 0940450003
  • 9780940450004
  • 0521262194
  • 9780521262194
  • 9780940450035
  • 0940450038
  • 0094045003
  • 9780094045002
LCCN
81018600
OCLC
  • ocm07924621
  • 7924621
  • SCSB-2253011
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries