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At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial, "civilized" world of the nineteenth century.
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Grave, classical in form, open-ended and intimate.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Herman Melville
- First published
- 1840
- Pages
- 335
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, ICON Classics, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 216
- Language
- English, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780848805814
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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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