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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 Seas narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific.
Herman Melville's second novel, Omoo (1847), typical of his early works, is a somewhat unsettled blend of imaginative yarn and docu mentary materials, a loose and open kind of literary text.
Dive deep into Herman Melville's Omoo with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
A review of Melville's second novel, "Omoo". A great novel with a fun cast of characters, a very contemporary liquid world, and the drama of workplace resistance. For more of my thoughts on...
Melville House; Herman Melville. Melville family in the City of Albany (1830-1838) Typee; Omoo; Chester A. Arthur regarding Melville and the New York Custom House; Film and TV adaptations of Herman Melville’s works. Last of the Pagans (1935) Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949) Enchanted Island (1958) Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951) and Typee
Omoo, novel by Herman Melville, published in 1847 as a sequel to his novel Typee. Based on Melville’s own experiences in the South Pacific, this episodic novel, in a more comical vein than that of Typee, tells of the narrator’s participation in a mutiny on a whale ship and his subsequent wanderings.
‘Omoo’ in the dialect of the Marquesas Islands signifies a person wandering from one island to another. The narrative before us opens with the author's escape from the island of Nukuheva-where, as our readers will sufficiently remember, (see Ath .
