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Mardi and a Voyage Thither: Volume Three

Mardi and a Voyage Thither: Volume Three

Melville, Herman

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Series: Melville

Classic Fiction

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ISBN10: 0810116901
ISBN13: 9780810116900
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Oct 14 1998
Pages: 681
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.31 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
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).

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