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false <![CDATA[Typee]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176146079m/597320.jpg 597320 53 This is the first edition of <i>Typee</i> to place its most riveting featuresthe highly charged and complicated accounts of sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and tabooin a broad historical context. Twelve rich selections from the writings of Melville's predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melville's treatment of these topics is unconventional and why it matters. The volume also includes a complete list of the excisions and revisions insisted on by Melville's American publisher, further proof of how much his text was pushing the boundaries of acceptable literature of the day. <i>Typee</i> offers an alternative for instructors wishing to teach briefer Melville fiction. 3078516 book 1846 Typee total:595|5:92|4:201|3:214|2:67|1:21| 595 2061 806 58 4 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 20:11:59 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 20:11:59 -0700 2008 www.librivox.org). A vividly told and well-observed first-person account of Melville's time among a preindustrial South Sea islander society that had minimal contact with the West. Part polemic, part adventure story, part amateur ethnography....more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 07:17:08 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 09:44:40 -0700 2009
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It is nothing like the writing in Moby Dick. Typee is an excellent adventure narrative, containing a lot of social commentary on colonizing and the hypocrisy of Western Civilization, with apt and detailed descripti...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 21:35:30 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 21:59:12 -0800 2009
In the same style as Moby Dick, this story was told in almost an anthropological point of view. What made it even more interesting for me is that I knew the author had ac...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 31 09:25:23 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 13:22:38 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 11:39:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 09:55:01 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 10:12:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 08:10:13 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 13:46:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jun 29 12:36:35 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 12:37:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 20:56:09 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 10:21:22 -0700 2009
If you want to actually enjoy the suspense and find out for yourself DO NOT READ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 15:45:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 15:51:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Mar 13 10:11:26 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 10:12:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Sat Apr 11 08:41:19 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 08:43:22 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Jul 15 10:41:39 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 26 16:35:40 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 15 10:41:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=597320