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Fiction · 1847

Omoo

Adventures in the South Seas

Herman Melville

Reading time
about 7.5 h
Length
101,091 words · 386 pages
Structure
82 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Part I
  2. Chapter I — My Reception Aboard
  3. Chapter II — Some Account of the Ship
  4. Chapter III — Further Account of the Julia
  5. Chapter IV — A Scene in the Forecastle
  6. Chapter V — What Happened at Hytyhoo
  7. Chapter VI — We Touch at la Dominica
  8. Chapter VII — What Happened at Hannamanoo
  9. Chapter VIII — The Tattooers of la Dominica
  10. Chapter IX — We Steer to the Westward—State of Affairs
  11. Chapter X — A Sea-Parlour Described, with Some of Its Tenants
  12. Chapter XI — Doctor Long Ghost a Wag—One of His Capers
  13. Chapter XII — Death and Burial of Two of the Crew
  14. Chapter XIII — Our Destination Changed
  15. Chapter XIV — Rope Yarn
  16. Chapter XV — Chips and Bungs
  17. Chapter XVI — We Encounter a Gale
  18. Chapter XVII — The Coral Islands
  19. Chapter XVIII — Tahiti
  20. Chapter XIX — A Surprise—More About Bembo
  21. Chapter XX — The Round Robin—Visitors from Shore
  22. Chapter XXI — Proceedings of the Consul
  23. Chapter XXII — The Consul’s Departure
  24. Chapter XXIII — The Second Night Off Papeetee
  25. Chapter XXIV — Outbreak of the Crew
  26. Chapter XXV — Jermin Encounters an Old Shipmate
  27. Chapter XXVI — We Enter the Harbour—Jim the Pilot
  28. Chapter XXVII — A Glance at Papeetee—We Are Sent Aboard the Frigate
  29. Chapter XXVIII — Reception from the Frenchman
  30. Chapter XXIX — The Reine Blanche
  31. Chapter XXX — They Take Us Ashore—What Happened There
  32. Chapter XXXI — The Calabooza Beretanee
  33. Chapter XXXII — Proceedings of the French at Tahiti
  34. Chapter XXXIII — We Receive Calls at the Hotel de Calabooza
  35. Chapter XXXIV — Life at the Calabooza
  36. Chapter XXXV — Visit from an Old Acquaintance
  37. Chapter XXXVI — We Are Carried Before the Consul and Captain
  38. Chapter XXXVII — The French Priests Pay Their Respects
  39. Chapter XXXVIII — Little Julia Sails Without Us
  40. Chapter XXXIX — Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn—Friendships in Polynesia
  41. Part II
  42. Chapter XL — We Take Unto Ourselves Friends
  43. Chapter XLI — We Levy Contributions on the Shipping
  44. Chapter XLII — Motoo-Otoo a Tahitian Casuist
  45. Chapter XLIII — One Is Judged by the Company He Keeps
  46. Chapter XLIV — Cathedral of Papoar—The Church of the Cocoa-Nuts
  47. Chapter XLV — Missionary’s Sermon; With Some Reflections
  48. Chapter XLVI — Something About the Kannakippers
  49. Chapter XLVII — How They Dress in Tahiti
  50. Chapter XLVIII — Tahiti as It Is
  51. Chapter XLIX — Same Subject Continued
  52. Chapter L — Something Happens to Long Ghost
  53. Chapter LI — Wilson Gives Us the Cut—Departure for Imeeo
  54. Chapter LII — The Valley of Martair
  55. Chapter LIII — Farming in Polynesia
  56. Chapter LIV — Some Account of the Wild Cattle in Polynesia
  57. Chapter LV — A Hunting Ramble with Zeke
  58. Chapter LVI — Mosquitoes
  59. Chapter LVII — The Second Hunt in the Mountains
  60. Chapter LVIII — The Hunting-Feast; And a Visit to Afrehitoo
  61. Chapter LIX — The Murphies
  62. Chapter LX — What They Thought of Us in Martair
  63. Chapter LXI — Preparing for the Journey
  64. Chapter LXII — Tamai
  65. Chapter LXIII — A Dance in the Valley
  66. Chapter LXIV — Mysterious
  67. Chapter LXV — The Hegira, or Flight
  68. Chapter LXVI — How We Were to Get to Taloo
  69. Chapter LXVII — The Journey Round the Beach
  70. Chapter LXVIII — A Dinner-Party in Imeeo
  71. Chapter LXIX — The Cocoa-Palm
  72. Chapter LXX — Life at Loohooloo
  73. Chapter LXXI — We Start for Taloo
  74. Chapter LXXII — A Dealer in the Contraband
  75. Chapter LXXIII — Our Reception in Partoowye
  76. Chapter LXXIV — Retiring for the Night—The Doctor Grows Devout
  77. Chapter LXXV — A Ramble Through the Settlement
  78. Chapter LXXVI — An Island Jilt—We Visit the Ship
  79. Chapter LXXVII — A Party of Rovers—Little Loo and the Doctor
  80. Chapter LXXVIII — Mrs. Bell
  81. Chapter LXXIX — Taloo Chapel—Holding Court in Polynesia
  82. Chapter LXXX — Queen Pomaree
  83. Chapter LXXXI — We Visit the Court
  84. Chapter LXXXII — Which Ends the Book

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Herman Melville

1819–1891 · Victorian

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was born in New York City. After his father’s bankruptcy and death he went to sea — on a merchant ship, then on whalers in the Pacific — and turned the experience into the early successes Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Moby-Dick (1851) was a commercial failure; after Pierre and The Confidence-Man his reputation faded and he worked for nineteen years as a customs inspector in New York, writing poetry. Billy Budd was left in manuscript at his death and published in 1924, by which time his rediscovery had begun.

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