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Brett Alan Dewing
Mar 18, 2010
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I have just finished Herman Melville's first novel, Typee. I confess that there is something about Melville's prose I love. His sentences are delightful. And though his books are not about plot, they hold my attention. I love him.

Typee tells the true story of when the young Melville ran from a particularly dreadful whaling voyage and hid among the nativ…

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