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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
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.
"Typee: A Romance of the South Seas" by Herman Melville is a narrative. 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.
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Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our literary history,—Lowell, Whitman, and Melville,—it is interesting to observe that the two latter were both descended, on the fathers’ and mothers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New England and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melville and Gansevoort, were the several combinations which produced these men; and it is easy to trace in the life and character of each author the qualities derived from his joint ancestry. Here, however, the resemblance ceases, for Whitman’s forebears, while worthy country people of good descent, were not prominent in public or private life. Melville, on the other hand, was of distinctly patrician birth, his paternal and maternal grandfathers having been leading characters in the Revolutionary War; their descendants still maintaining a dignified social position.
Contents
- 01Preface
- 02Introduction to the Edition of 1892
- 03By Arthur Stedman
- 04Typee
- 05Chapter One
- 06Chapter Two
- 07Chapter Three
- 08Chapter Four
- 09Chapter Five
- 10Chapter Six
- 11Chapter Seven
- 12Chapter Eight
- 13Chapter Nine
- 14Chapter Ten
- 15Chapter Eleven
- 16Chapter Twelve
- 17Chapter Thirteen
- 18Chapter Fourteen
- 19Chapter Fifteen
- 20Chapter Sixteen
- 21Chapter Seventeen
- 22Chapter Eighteen
- 23Chapter Nineteen
- 24Chapter Twenty
- 25Chapter Twenty-One
- 26Chapter Twenty-Two
- 27Chapter Twenty-Three
- 28Chapter Twenty-Four
- 29Chapter Twenty-Five
- 30Chapter Twenty-Six
- 31Chapter Twenty-Seven
- 32Chapter Twenty-Eight
- 33Chapter Twenty-Nine
- 34Chapter Thirty
- 35Chapter Thirty-One
- 36Chapter Thirty-Two
- 37Chapter Thirty-Three
- 38Chapter Thirty-Four
- 39The Story of Toby
- 40Note.
About this edition
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Advanced: for close, demanding reading
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 330 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers