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| | Omoo, Herman Melville (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Melville's second book, Omoo, begins where his first book, Typee, left off. |
 | | Whitman praised its "good-natured style." But many reviewers doubted Melville's veracity, and some objected to his "raciness" and "indecencies." Some also denounced his criticism of missionary endeavors, for his attacks on missionaries were more polemical than those undertaken in the earlier book. |
 | | Omoo, however, influenced later visitors to Tahiti such as Pierre Loti, Henry Adams, John La Farge, and Jack London; it was the book that sent Robert Louis Stevenson to the South Seas. |
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