Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Mardi in Poughkeepsie

Here's another Melville notice in the Journal and Poughkeepsie Eagle (April 21, 1849), a weekly newspaper published every Saturday morning in Poughkeepsie, New York by Isaac Platt and William Schram.


MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER. By Herman Melville. In two volumes. Harper & Brothers, publishers.

The author has published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which he says were received in many quarters with incredulity; he now writes a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishes it as such, to see whether the fiction might not possibly be received for a verity. It matters little whether this work is received as fiction or reality, should it be read with as much interest as the writer's former productions have been. We commend it to our readers as a very valuable acquisition to libraries. For sale by John Grubb, in this village.  
-- The Journal and Poughkeepsie Eagle, April 21, 1849.
Mardi Volume 1 at Google Books
Mardi Volume 2 at Google Books

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