February 17, 2006
Fantastic Voyage?
Herman Melville knew — and probably hoped — that his first book, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) was going to raise eyebrows. In a preface, the fledgling author observed that "there are some things related in the narrative which will be sure to appear strange, or perhaps entirely incomprehensible, to the reader; but they cannot appear more so to him than they did to the author at the time. He has stated such matters just as they occurred, and leaves every one to
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