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
I have said that "Omoo" and "Typee," the books in which the sailor Melville describes his life among the Otaheitans, have sunk too rapidly into obscurity.
From Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Omoo might be the heavy elephant; Typee the light-comedy camel.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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