Omoo
Americannoun
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His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo.
From Time Magazine Archive
His second book, Omoo, another virile tale of the South Seas, was written with something of caution; so also White Jacket, semi-symbolic travelogue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Omoo is of the order composite, a skilfully concocted Robinsonade, where fictitious incident is ingeniously blended with genuine information.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
Omoo would have found readers at any time, and although twenty publishers had combined with fifty authors to deluge the public with the Pacific Ocean during the five previous years.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
At this point of his adventures he commences Omoo.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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