Tuesday, January 18, 2022

IYKYK OMOO

Plage de Tautira
Jérémie Silvestro / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

Advertised in the Louisville Morning Courier, May 29, 1847:

NEW Books at Geo. W. Noble's Cheap Literary Depot, No 66, Fourth st.

"... Omoo, a narrative of adventures in the South Seas, by Herman Melville, author of Typee. This book is regarded by the "knowing ones" as the book of books."
29 May 1847, Sat The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
In 1849, the same Louisville bookseller would tout Melville's Mardi and a voyage thither as the Greatest work of the age.


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