![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The books arose from Melville not really knowing what to do with his life, someone suggesting that he take to the sea, and young Herman doing just that, then fictionalizing a lot of what he saw. Melville knew a first flush of success with the publication of his first two works, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) and Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847). Melville’s centennial began a journey that the author himself didn’t take in his own lifetime. The author was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, and we mostly know of him now because he was plucked from the ranks of obscurity in 1919, when the literary commodity that was Herman Melville was rediscovered in all of its posthumous glory. The year 2019 is witnessing a double feting of Herman Melville. ![]()
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