Omoo (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Herman Melville
- First Published: 1847
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Early 1840’s
- Setting: Tahiti and the South Seas
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Prisoners, Nineteenth century, Missions or missionaries, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Sea or seafaring life, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Whales or whaling, Mutiny, Tahiti
- Locales: Tahiti
Characters Discussed
Herman Melville, an American sailor who is rescued from a cannibal island by the crew of a British whaler, the Julia, and who signs on the ship as a deck hand. He is soon relieved of duty because of lameness in his leg. Conditions on the ship are bad, so Melville and the rest of the crew put ashore at Papeetee, on the island of Tahiti, and are imprisoned when they refuse to return to their ship. After the ship sails away with a new crew, Melville and the other sailors are freed by their Tahitian jailer. Later, Melville and his friend, Doctor Long...
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Herman Melville (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Herman Melville (Poetry)Herman Melville (Short Fiction)Herman Melville (Long Fiction)Herman Melville (Dictionary of World Biography)
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