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First published in 1846, this was American writer, Melville's first book partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which he spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands.
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Typee (1846) is the first 'romance' of the semi-autobiographical account of life in the Marquesas Islands in the 1840s. A blend of personal experience and the narratives of explorers and missionaries, it influenced many later writers on the Paciflc, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London. Melville himself deserted from a whaling ship in the islands and lived for four weeks among the inhabitants, observing and recording their way of life. Typee points up the wonders, the dilemmas, the 'fatal impact' of European encounter with the peoples of the Pacific. This edition offers an introduction that considers the book from a post-colonial perspective, and detailed annotation of Melville's allusions.
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- PublisherSignet Classics
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0451502388
- ISBN 13 9780451502384
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
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Signet/New American Library, 1964
ISBN 10: 0451502388
ISBN 13: 9780451502384
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paperback. 1st edition. New York. 1964. August 1964. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Some Underlining Inside, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0451502388. Afterword By Harrison Hayford. 320 pages. paperback. CP238. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback America Literature 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Herman Melville's first book, Typee, the work. that won him his greatest lifetime fame, is a narrative of a four - month sojourn among primitive South Sea Islanders. In it Melville combines his own extraordinary personal experiences with later intensive research to produce a vivid and imaginative work. Shocking his original audience with its frankness, this portrayal of Polynesian tribal life endures as one of exotic fascination, given sharp focus by a narrator drawn to this primitive pattern of existence, yet forced to remain ever alien to it. In this ambivalent vision appears the first evidence of the author's later moral complexities; but here it is an element that remains below the surface of the vigor and color of this, Melville's freshest, most high - spirited achievement. Harrison Hayford declares, 'Typee is no Moby - Dick. - but it is a classic - and not just a children's classic - in its own right.' As Lewis Mumford has written: 'One reads Typee, and life suddenly shows a new vista. Adventure is possible: Eden is real.' inventory #31179 Some Underlining Inside, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Seller Inventory # z31179
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