Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (The Penguin English Library)

Melville, Herman

ISBN 10: 0140430709 / ISBN 13: 9780140430707

Edité par Penguin Classics, 1972

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 00087139308

À propos de l?auteur: Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (The ...
Éditeur : Penguin Classics
Date d'édition : 1972
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good