Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life - Brossura

Melville, Herman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140434887 ISBN 13: 9780140434880

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1996

Riassunto

Describes the adventures of a sailor who jumps ship at a south sea island inhabited by cannibals, a voyage around Polynesia, and a quest for an elusive beauty among the islands of a tropical archipelago.

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Recensione:

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

L'autore:

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140434887
• ISBN 13: 9780140434880
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368