Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville
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"Typee: A Romance of the South Seas" by Herman Melville is a narrative published in 1846. Based on Melville's experiences in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, this account follows his time living among a Polynesian tribe rumored to be cannibals. The book made Melville famous as "the man who lived among the cannibals," though questions arose about how much was fact versus fiction. Blending travel memoir with cultural observation, Typee sympathetically portrays
indigenous life while criticizing European colonizers and missionaries. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Stedman, Arthur Griffin, 1859-1908 |
| Title | Typee: A Romance of the South Seas |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee |
| Credits | Dianne Bean and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 57.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Indigenous peoples -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sailors -- Fiction |
| Subject | Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 1900 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 1999 |
| Last Update | May 28, 2022 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1137 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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