Mardi

Mardi
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1849
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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Mardi

Mardi
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516836031

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We were now voyaging straight for Maramma; where lived and reigned, in mystery, the High Pontiff of the adjoining isles: prince, priest, and god, in his own proper person: great lord paramount over many kings in Mardi; his hands full of scepters and crosiers. Soon, rounding a lofty and insulated shore, the great central peak of the island came in sight; domineering over the neighboring hills; the same aspiring pinnacle, descried in drawing near the archipelago in the Chamois. "Tall Peak of Ofo!" cried Babbalanja, "how comes it that thy shadow so broods over Mardi; flinging new shades upon spots already shaded by the hill-sides; shade upon shade!"

Mardi and a Voyage Thither

Mardi and a Voyage Thither
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 749
Release: 1970
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0810100142

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Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main inducement" in altering his plan for his third book, Mardi: and a Voyage Thither (1849). Melville wanted to exploit the "rich poetical material" of Polynesia and also to escape feeling "irked, cramped, & fettered" by a narrative of facts. "I began to feel . . . a longing to plume my pinions for a flight," he told his English publisher. This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of all editions publishing during Melville's lifetime, it incorporates author corrections and many emendations made by the present editors. This edition of Mardi is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

Mardi: And a Voyage Thither: Complete

Mardi: And a Voyage Thither: Complete
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2019-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781794237575

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Mardi and a Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

Mardi and a Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781522796619

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Mardi

Mardi
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1964
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Mardi

Mardi
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre:
ISBN:

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Book Excerpt: ...ance.Winding our way among jungles, we came to a deep hollow, planted with one gigantic palm-shaft, belted round by saplings, springing from its roots. But, Laocoon-like, sire and sons stood locked in the serpent folds of gnarled, distorted banians; and the banian-bark, eating into their vital wood, corrupted their veins of sap, till all those palm- nuts were poisoned chalices.Near by stood clean-limbed, comely manchineels, with lustrous leaves and golden fruit. You would have deemed them Trees of Life; but underneath their branches grew no blade of grass, no herb, nor moss; the bare earth was scorched by heaven's own dews, filtrated through that fatal foliage.Farther on, there frowned a grove of blended banian boughs, thick- ranked manchineels, and many a upas; their summits gilded by the sun; but below, deep shadows, darkening night-shade ferns, and mandrakes. Buried in their midst, and dimly seen among large leaves, all halberd- shaped, were piles of stone, supporting falling temples of bamboo...

Mardi

Mardi
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Pinnacle Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781374952447

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Mardi

Mardi
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516836024

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We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound. Out spreads the canvas-alow, aloft-boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun' sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine. But whence, and whither wend ye, mariners?

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781297575785

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