Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
- ISBN-10
- 0140088431
- ISBN-13
- 9780140088434
- Series
- Typee
- Category
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
- Pages
- 367
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1972
- Author
- Herman Melville
Description
The tale is a distortion of the life of the Typees and foreshadows the metaphysical precoccupations in Melville's later work with its depiction of the evil and mystery lurking beneath the idyllic setting.
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