Author: Larry Edward Wegener
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1160

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Author: Larry Edward Wegener
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1276

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Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main inducement" in altering his plan for his third book, Mardi: and a Voyage Thither (1849). Melville wanted to exploit the "rich poetical material" of Polynesia and also to escape feeling "irked, cramped, & fettered" by a narrative of facts. "I began to feel . . . a longing to plume my pinions for a flight," he told his English publisher. Mardi began as a sequel to Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), but changed radically while he was writing it and emerged as an altogether independent and original work. In its combination of adventure, allegorical romance, realistic portraits of characters and scenes from nature, philosophical speculation, and travelogue-satire, Mardi was Melville's first attempt to create a great work of fiction. This edition of is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

Author: Melville H.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521074597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither,” the third book of the author, dives deep into the pure fiction territory. As the ideological successor to “Typee” and “Omoo,” it tells the story of an American sailor who decided to explore the South Pacifi c. This time Melville masterfully injects the elements of romance, philosophical refl ections, and satire, revealing his writer talent in all its glory.

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 378

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The second part of the Book by Herman Melville published in 1849.

Author: Larry G. Hinman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313091471
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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An outstanding research guide for undergraduate students of American literature, this best-selling book is essential when it comes to researching American authors. Bracken and Hinman identify and describe the best and most current sources, both in print and online, for nearly 300 American writers whose works are included in the most frequently used literary anthologies. Students will know exactly what information is available and where to find it.

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810100142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 749

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Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main inducement" in altering his plan for his third book, Mardi: and a Voyage Thither (1849). Melville wanted to exploit the "rich poetical material" of Polynesia and also to escape feeling "irked, cramped, & fettered" by a narrative of facts. "I began to feel . . . a longing to plume my pinions for a flight," he told his English publisher. This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of all editions publishing during Melville's lifetime, it incorporates author corrections and many emendations made by the present editors. This edition of Mardi is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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The third book by American writer Herman Melville first published in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the authors two previous efforts.

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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'Mardi, and a Voyage Thither' is the third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two previous efforts, the adventure story gives way to a romance story, which in its turn gives way to a philosophical quest.Mardi is Melville's first pure fiction work (while featuring fictional narrators; his previous novels were heavily autobiographical). It details (much like Typee and Omoo) the travelings of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. Unlike the first two, however, Mardi is highly philosophical and said to be the first work to show Melville's true potential. The tale begins as a simple narrative, but quickly focuses upon discourse between the main characters and their interactions with the different symbolic countries they encounter. While not as cohesive or lengthy as Moby-Dick, it shares a similar writing style as well as many of the same themes.As a preface to Mardi, Melville wrote somewhat ironically that his first two books were nonfiction but disbelieved; by the same pattern he hoped the fiction book would be accepted as fact.Font used in this annotated edition is Baskerville - 12.

Author: Eugene F. Irey
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Sea stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1072

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