{"product_id":"9781598533453","title":"Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1)","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOmoo\u003c\/i\u003e, based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the \"cannibals\" in Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the 20th century. \u003ci\u003eMardi\u003c\/i\u003e(\"the world\" in Polynesian) is a mixture of love story, adventure, and political allegory, set on a mythical Pacific island, that looks forward to the complexities of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e. Together, these three romances give early evidence of the genius and daring that make Melville the master novelist of the sea and a precursor of modernist literature. Two companion volumes--\u003ci\u003eHerman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHerman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Confidence Man, Uncollected Prose, and Billy Budd\u003c\/i\u003e complete this edition of Melville's prose.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175626457328,"sku":"9781598533453","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598533453_p0.jpg?v=1763812920","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598533453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}