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Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas" by Herman Melville. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2020-04-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and a third of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. In 1949, the novel was adapted into the exploitation film Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God.In the Preface to Omoo, Melville claimed the book was autobiographical, written "from simple recollection" of some of his experiences in the Pacific in the 1840s and strengthened by his retelling the story many times before family and friends. Yet a scholar working in the late 1930s discovered that Melville had not simply relied on his memory and went on to reveal a wealth of other sources he drew on in writing the book.Later, Melville scholar Harrison Hayford made a detailed study of these sources and, in the introduction to a 1969 edition of Omoo, summed up the author's practice, showing that this was a repetition of a process previously used in Typee:"He had altered facts and dates, elaborated events, assimilated foreign materials, invented episodes, and dramatized the printed experiences of others as his own. He had not plagiarized, merely, for he had always rewritten and nearly always improved the passages he appropriated.....first writing out the narrative based on his recollections and invention, then using source books to pad out the chapters he had already written and to supply the stuff of new chapters that he inserted at various points in the manuscript."
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473374596 |
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and a third of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781421979601 |
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : Xist Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681952238 |
Being a Seaman in the 19th-Century "Dashing forever against their coral rampart, the breakers looked in the distance, like a line of rearing white chargers reined in, tossing their white manes, and bridling with foam." - Herman Melville, Omoo Omoo is basically a fiction-driven adventure novel based on Herman Melville’s South Pacific seamanship experience. The novel is a sequel to Typee; this time, the action is set on the remote islands of Tahiti and includes mutiny, recruiting new members, facing cannibalistic local tribes and handling the mutineers. How will the story end? Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780461126884 |
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Omoo Adventures in the South Seas This novel is a straightforward first-person account of adventure by a sensitive, well-read sailor called consecutively Typee and Paul.Font used in this annotated edition is Baskerville - 12.