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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Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual. Includes vintage illustration!
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.
Inspired by Melville’s own experiences on the high seas, this classic adventure tale pits two sailors against an island of cannibals After six months of relentless battering by the turbulent South Pacific, the whaling ship known as the ...
This edition includes notes on the text.
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.
Throughout his lifetime, Melville's most famous and popular character was Fayaway. This text of Typee is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). Book jacket.
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★This Book has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability★ ◆Well Illustrated ◆One of the best Book to read ◆Well Formatted ◆Attractive matte Finished cover Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book ...
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...
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Herman Melville’s Typee is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Typee - A Romance of the South Seas - By Herman Melville - Edited by Arthur Stedman - CLASSIC BOOKS - Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, a classic in the literature of travel and ...
Initially regarded as a travel narrative, the novel is based on Melville's monthlong adventure as a guest-captive of the Typee people, natives of the Marquesas Islands (in present-day French Polynesia), following his desertion from the ...
Throughout his lifetime, Melville's most famous and popular character was Fayaway. This text of Typee is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). Book jacket.
This edition offers an introduction that considers the book from a post-colonial perspective, and detailed annotation of Melville's allusions.
"Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life" was Herman Melville's first novel. Originally published in 1846, "Typee" was partially based on Melville's own experiences as a beachcomber in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands.
Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.