Melville Omoo

Melville, Herman: Omoo. A narrative of adventures in the South Seas. Edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker G. and Thomas Tanselle. The writings of Herman Melville 2. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780810101609
Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. Ungelesen. - Melville's second book, Omoo (1847), begins where his first, Typee (1846), leaves off. As he described the book, "It embraces adventures in the South Seas (of a totally different character from 'Typee') and includes an eventful cruise in an English Colonial Whaleman (a Sydney Ship) and a comical residence on the island of Tahiti." The popular success of his first book encouraged him to write this sequel, hoping it would be "a fitting successor" to Typee, which delineates Polynesian life "in its primitive state," while Omoo represents it "as affected by intercourse with the whites" and also "describes the 'man about town' sort of life, led, at the present day, by roving sailors in the Pacific." Most reviewers of Omoo were delighted by its "freshness," "vigor," and "picturesqueness." Walt Whitman found it "the most readable sort of reading" and praised its "richly good-natured style." The reading of Omoo influenced such later visitors to Tahiti as Pierre Loti, Henry Adams, John LaFarge, and Jack London; it was the book that sent Robert Louis Stevenson to the South Seas. While Typee has continued to be one of Melville's most popular books, Omoo has lost ground somewhat, though praised by D. H. Lawrence as "perhaps Melville ... at his best, his happiest," and by Lewis Mumford as "in some respects superior in literary quality" to Typee. The aim of this edition of Omoo, the second volume of the Northwestem-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, is to present a text as close to the author's intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of all editions published during his lifetime, it incorporates corrections made by the author and many emendations made by the present editors. This text of Omoo is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). ISBN 9780810101609 - , ISBN: 0810101602

6th print. XV, 380 S. Originalbroschur.

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Melville, Herman: Omoo, A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas [ The World's Classics CCLXXV ] , London Published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press , 1936
16mo ( 15.5 x 10 cm )
Melville, Herman, Omoo, A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas [ The World's Classics CCLXXV ], travel and exploration Oxford World's Classics

, 333 pages with 16 introductory pages including folding map, 16 page publishers catalogue at rear Reprint in Oxford World's Classics 16mo ( 15.5 x 10 cm ) Hardback , covers slightly rubbed with pale areas, a little shelf wear, book in good + condition , blue cloth with gilt title to spine, blind stamped rulings to covers, blind stamped crest to front, top edges gilt, ribbon marker

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Melville, Herman: Romances of Herman Melville. Complete and Unabridged. 1931. Cloth with dustjacket.

New York: Tudor Publishing Co. 1931. (First edition thus). Large thick octavo. Gilt decorated black cloth.Spine ends have a trace of fraying. Edges are tanned with some scuffing to the lower corner of the block else very good in complete dustjacket with some light wear to the extremities. Dustjacket spine has a small splotch of white paint else very good. Previous owner's illustrated bookplate is neatly affixed to front pastedown. A nice copy of this excellent collection of stories by author Herman Melville including "Moby Dick", "Typee", "Omoo", "Mardi", "White Jacket", "Israel Potter" and "Redburn". A wonderful book. Scarce in dustjacket especially in this very nice condition. A great book.

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Melville, Herman: Redburn, his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, in the merchant service. Edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker G. and Thomas Tanselle. The writings of Herman Melville 4. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780810100169
Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. Ungelesen. - Melville's fourth book, Redburn (1849), is a fictional narrative of a boy's first voyage, based loosely on Melville's own first voyage to and from Liverpool in 1839. Melville began the book under financial compulsion, wrote it hurriedly, disparaged it after completing it, and apparently never realized how interesting a book he had written. For a book so hastily composed and so little esteemed by its author, Redburn was reviewed in many influential publications. The reviewers were kinder toward the book than its author was, since they saw it as a regaining of the solid ground of Typee and Omoo while he saw it as a descent from the metaphysical heights of Mardi. As Hershel Parker points out in the Historical Note, modern readers who view Mardi as Melville's first attempt at the literary independence which he was to achieve in Moby-Dick and maintain in later works may tend to agree with the author rather than the reviewers. But Redburn has always had its admirers (John Masefield, for example, singled it out as his favorite among Melville's works); and the preeminent position which Melville now holds in American literature has given Redburn biographical significance and has directed extensive critical scrutiny toward it. The aim of the this edition of Redburn, the fourth volume in the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, is to present a text as close to the author's intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of the editions published during his lifetime, it incorporates corrections made in the English edition and emendations made by the present editors. This text of Redburn is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). ISBN 9780810100169 - , ISBN: 0810100169

5th print. X, 384 S. Originalbroschur.

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