In the canon
Mardi
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1849
- Pages
- Pages 650
"Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals." Herman Melville wrote that inside this book, and it reads like a man talking himself over the edge. Mardi opens as a sailor's yarn: a deserter adrift in an open boat on a windless Pacific, a girl with golden hair lifted from a canoe bound for sacrifice, an old priest killed to free her.
better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.
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