Omoo
Americannoun
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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
His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo.
From Time Magazine Archive
We tried them anagrammatically, but in vain: there was nought to be made of Omoo; shake it as we would, the O's came uppermost; and by reversing Typee we obtained but a pitiful result.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
Omoo followed in 1847, Moby Dick, or the White Whale, a powerful sea story, in 1852, and Israel Potter in 1855.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
Thereafter Melville was often at the little red house, where the children knew him as "Mr. Omoo," and less often Hawthorne came to chat with the racy romancer and philosopher by the great chimney.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
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