This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typ

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."Three compelling romances of the South Seas by Herman Melville-Typee-Omoo-Mardi

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, best known for Moby-Dick. His first three books were very successf

"These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of these fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville's own life in the ear