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Mardi

by Herman Melville

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1849
Pages
329
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Herman Melville's third book starts as a straightforward South Seas yarn and then breaks its own rails. An American sailor jumps ship from a whaler, rescues a fair-skinned maiden named Yillah from death, and loses her again almost at once. His search for her becomes a voyage through Mardi, an invented archipelago whose islands stand for nations, philosophies, and the follies of the age. Readers who came for adventure found instead a long, restless meditation on love, politics, and belief, and the book sank commercially. Later critics saw in its ambition a rehearsal for Moby-Dick.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American writer who drew heavily from his own experiences as a merchant sailor and whaler in the Pacific. He produced novels, short stories, and poetry that examined moral complexity and the sea, though he remained relatively obscure during his lifetime and saw renewed recognition only after his death.

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First published
1849
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
329
Language
English
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