ISBN: 9781442938489

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrati… More...

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and a third of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. In 1949, the novel was adapted into the exploitation film Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God. In the Preface to Omoo, Melville claimed the book was autobiographical, written from simple recollection of some of his experiences in the Pacific in the 1840s and strengthened by his retelling the story many times before family and friends. But scholar Charles Roberts Anderson, working in the late 1930s, discovered that Melville had not simply relied on his memory and went on to reveal a wealth of other sources he drew on in writing the book.Later, Melville scholar Harrison Hayford made a detailed study of these sources and, in the introduction to a 1969 edition of Omoo, summed up the author's practice, showing that this was a repetition of a process previously used in Typee:He had altered facts and dates, elaborated events, assimilated foreign materials, invented episodes, and dramatized the printed experiences of others as his own. He had not plagiarized, merely, for he had always rewritten and nearly always improved the passages he appropriated.....first writing out the narrative based on his recollections and invention, then using source books to pad out the chapters he had already written and to supply the stuff of new chapters that he inserted at various points in the manuscript. (wikipedia.org) Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, ReadHowYouWant Digital >16<

2006, ISBN: 9781442938489

A humorours fiction based on the concept of a travel memoir revoloving around a sailor and his journey on the vast sea. He encounters various types of life at the time; sea life aboard sh… More...

A humorours fiction based on the concept of a travel memoir revoloving around a sailor and his journey on the vast sea. He encounters various types of life at the time; sea life aboard ship island life by the native people customs of the natives. Detailed descriptions of practical jokes drunken brawls and cultural faux-pas make readers smile and sometimes laugh out loud. Productinformatie: Taal: Engels; Formaat: ePub met kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) van Adobe; Bestandsgrootte: 0.42 MB; Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ; Printrechten: Het printen van de pagina's is niet toegestaan; Voorleesfunctie: De voorleesfunctie is uitgeschakeld; Geschikt voor: Alle e-readers te koop bij bol.com (of compatible met Adobe DRM). Telefoons/tablets met Google Android (1.6 of hoger) voorzien van bol.com boekenbol app. PC en Mac met Adobe reader software; ISBN10: 144293848X; ISBN13: 9781442938489; , Engels | Ebook | 2006, Literatuur, Romans, Meer romans, Readhowyouwant<

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A humorours fiction based on the concept of a travel memoir revoloving around a sailor and his journey on the vast sea. He encounters various types of life at the time; sea life aboard sh… More...

A humorours fiction based on the concept of a travel memoir revoloving around a sailor and his journey on the vast sea. He encounters various types of life at the time; sea life aboard ship island life by the native people customs of the natives. Detailed descriptions of practical jokes drunken brawls and cultural faux-pas make readers smile and sometimes laugh out loud. Fiction & Literature, , Omoo: Adventures In The South Seas~~ Herman Melville~~Fiction & Literature~~9781442938489, EN, Omoo: Adventures In The South Seas, Herman Melville, 9781442938489, ReadHowYouWant, 01/01/2006, , , , ReadHowYouWant, 01/01/2006<

2001, ISBN: 9781442938489

A humorours fiction based on the concept of a travel memoir revoloving around a sailor and his journey on the vast sea. He encounters various types of life at the time; sea life aboard sh… More...

A humorours fiction based on the concept of a travel memoir revoloving around a sailor and his journey on the vast sea. He encounters various types of life at the time; sea life aboard ship island life by the native people customs of the natives. Det Fiction & Literature, , Omoo: Adventures In The South Seas~~ Herman Melville~~Fiction & Literature~~9781442938489, EN, Omoo: Adventures In The South Seas, Herman Melville, 9781442938489, ReadHowYouWant, 01/01/2006, , , , ReadHowYouWant, 01/01/2006<

ISBN: 9781442938489

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