Fiction · 1846
Typee
A Romance of the South Seas
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the Edition of 1892
- Chapter One — The Sea—Longings for Shore—A Land-Sick Ship—Destination of the Voyagers—The Marquesas—Adventure of a Missionary’s Wife Among the Savages—Characteristic Anecdote of the Queen of Nukuheva
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five — Thoughts Previous to Attempting an Escape—Toby, a Fellow Sailor, Agrees to Share the Adventure—Last Night Aboard the Ship
- Chapter Six — A Specimen of Nautical Oratory—Criticisms of the Sailors—The Starboard Watch Are Given a Holiday—The Escape to the Mountains
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine — Perilous Passage of the Ravine—Descent Into the Valley
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven — Midnight Reflections—Morning Visitors—A Warrior in Costume—A Savage Aesculapius—Practice of the Healing Art—Body Servant—A Dwelling-House of the Valley Described—Portraits of Its Inmates
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen — Attempt to Procure Relief from Nukuheva—Perilous Adventure of Toby in the Happar Mountains—Eloquence of Kory-Kory
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen — Kindness of Marheyo and the Rest of the Islanders—A Full Description of the Bread-Fruit Tree—Different Modes of Preparing the Fruit
- Chapter Sixteen — Melancholy Condition—Occurrence at the Ti—Anecdote of Marheyo—Shaving the Head of a Warrior
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen — Reflections After Marnoo’s Departure-Battle of the Pop-Guns—Strange Conceit of Marheyo—Process of Making Tappa
- Chapter Twenty — History of a Day as Usually Spent in Typee Valley—Dances of the Marquesan Girls
- Chapter Twenty-One — The Spring of Arva Wai—Remarkable Monumental Remains—Some Ideas with Regard to the History of the Pi-Pis Found in the Valley
- Chapter Twenty-Two — Preparations for a Grand Festival in the Valley—Strange Doings in the Taboo Groves—Monument of Calabashes—Gala Costume of the Typee Damsels—Departure for the Festival
- Chapter Twenty-Three — The Feast of Calabashes
- Chapter Twenty-Four
- Chapter Twenty-Five
- Chapter Twenty-Six
- Chapter Twenty-Seven — The Social Condition and General Character of the Typees
- Chapter Twenty-Eight — Fishing Parties—Mode of Distributing the Fish—Midnight Banquet—Time-Keeping Tapers—Unceremonious Style of Eating the Fish
- Chapter Twenty-Nine
- Chapter Thirty — A Professor of the Fine Arts—His Persecutions—Something About Tattooing and Tabooing—Two Anecdotes in Illustration of the Latter—A Few Thoughts on the Typee Dialect
- Chapter Thirty-One
- Chapter Thirty-Two — Apprehensions of Evil—Frightful Discovery—Some Remarks on Cannibalism—Second Battle with the Happars—Savage Spectacle—Mysterious Feast—Subsequent Disclosures
- Chapter Thirty-Three — The Stranger Again Arrives in the Valley—Singular Interview with Him—Attempt to Escape—Failure—Melancholy Situation—Sympathy of Marheyo
- Chapter Thirty-Four — The Escape
- Note
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About the author
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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