Typee

Name: Typee
Brand: Saga Egmont International
SKU: 9789176393246
Price: 11.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 978-9-176-39324-6

de Herman Melville (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Saga Egmont International

janvier 2017

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Résumé

The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote ‘Typee’ (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of ‘The Scarlet Letter’) that "from my twenty-fifth year I date my life". Despite being mostly recognized, today, as the author of the classic novel, ‘Moby Dick’, ‘Typee’ was Melville’s best-selling novel in his life-time.

Auteur

Herman Melville (auteur)

Herman Melville (1819-1891) fut un romancier, poète et essayiste américain. Son expérience de la vie en mer, que ce soit à bord d'un navire marchand ou d'un baleinier, lui inspire son oeuvre maîtresse, redécouverte au XXe siècle : Moby-Dick. La richesse et la complexité de sa prose en font l'un des grands stylistes américains, aux côtés de William Faulkner ou Henry James.

Auteur(s) : Herman Melville