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
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Après avoir été employé de banque à 13 ans, fermier à 15, instituteur à 18, Melville se fit marin et mena pendant cinq ou six ans une existence aventureuse qui laissa en lui des traces durables : il fut mutin, vécut parmi les cannibales, embarqua encore, puis, enfin sur la terre ferme, il devint l’écrivain « créateur de mythes » dont parle Albert Camus.
Auteur(s) : Herman Melville
Caractéristiques
Editeur : Saga Egmont International
Auteur(s) : Herman Melville
Publication : 4 janvier 2017
Support(s) : Livre audio [MP3]
Protection(s) : Aucune (MP3)
EAN13 Livre audio [MP3] : 9789176391730
