Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville, Herman
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville, Herman

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Melville's continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued...
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Author: Herman Melville
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville, Herman

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

$53.15
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville, Herman

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

$53.15
Author: Herman Melville
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Melville's continuing adventures in the South Seas

Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville's personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colorful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.16w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780143104926
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.


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