Typee
Subtitle: a peep at Polynesian life ; Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas ; Mardi, and a voyage thither
By: Herman Melville.
Contributors: Tanselle, G. Thomas 1934-
Series: The Library of America
Publisher: Literary Classics of the United States; Distributed by the Viking Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1333
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Fiction; Sailors -- Fiction; Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction; Oceania -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Typee.; Omoo.; Mardi, and a voyage thither.
Description: "These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of these fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville's own life in the early 1840s"--Jacket.
Notes: "G. Thomas Tanselle wrote the notes and chronology and selected the texts for this volume"--Prelim. p. [3]