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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

BookID: 1900

Language:English

Editor:Stedman, Arthur Griffin, 1859-1908

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 57.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Adventure storiesIndigenous peoples -- FictionSailors -- FictionMarquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction

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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.)

Class:PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

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