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Typee: A Peep At Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville

Typee: A Peep At Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics (Jan 01, 1996)
9780140434880
| Paperback
368 pages | 127 x 196 mm | English
Dewey 813.3
LC Classification PS2384 .T8 1996
LC Control No. 95032699

Genre

  • Adventure Stories

Subject

  • Adventure Stories
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Indigenous Peoples/ Fiction
  • Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
  • Sailors/ Fiction

Plot

Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual.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.

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