Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
- ISBN-10
- 197413153X
- ISBN-13
- 9781974131532
- Series
- Typee
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-02
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Herman Melville
Description
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas is the first novel of the famous author, Herman Melville who penned Moby Dick. Published in London in 1846, it is considered a classic example of adventure literature. The novel is loosely based on Herman Melville's own life, and corroborated by a fellow castaway, Richard Tobias Greene. The story focuses on a castaway like Melville who lives among cannibals, an event that made Melville famous. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
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