Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Loa #1)

by Herman Melville

Book Overview

This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the "cannibals" in Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the 20th century. Mardi ("the world" in Polynesian) is a mixture of love...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940450003
• ISBN13: 9780940450004
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1333 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher