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Laddar... Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardiav Herman Melville
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Typee--adventure story only read because Melville did better later. Here are the basics: jumped ship on Pacific isle, horrendous idols, savage cannibals, and half-clad nymphs. Titillation and adrenalin for the 1800's. And speculations on the good life, too (good life = piles of breadfruit, nymphs, and bananas). ( ) I love Melville! Therefore, my objectivity is somewhat lacking. I read this volume some 30 years ago. This was an excellent book (i.e., a 5 on a 5 point scale), which is much more than I expect when I buy a book. This contains Melville's early works. These are adventure stories of sailing in the South Seas. He is a competent writer with a very good vocabulary. His plot development is at times slow. His character development is good. I was fully involved. But, there was for one long passage (100 plus pages?) of a seemingly endless description of floating in a canoe. Positives: This is a Library of America book. Negatives: Descriptions are too long at times. The first book is this volume is 'Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life'. The second book is 'Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas'. The third book is 'Mardi: and A Voyage Thither'. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML: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 story, adventure, and political allegory, set on a mythical Pacific island, that looks forward to the complexities of Moby-Dick. Together, these three romances give early evidence of the genius and daring that make Melville the master novelist of the sea and a precursor of modernist literature. Two companion volumesâ??Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick and Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence Man, Uncollected Prose, and Billy Budd complete this edition of Melville's pro Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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