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Rent Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
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Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 400
Synopsis
This early, autobiographical adventure novel (1847) is a sequel to TYPEE, which preceded it by a year. Popular in its day, OMOO is a picaresque adventure that is suffused with Melville's disgust with the white missionaries who tried to impose their values on a culture they had no understanding of, and on colonialism in the South Seas in general. (According to Melville, 'omoo' is the Polynesian word for 'wanderer.')