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Melville’s marriage in conjunction with his roving experiences in the Pacific became a backdrop for his third book, Mardi,which is the longest and most voluminous of his works.The plot,characters,and scenes of Mardi are for the most part fictitious and have some allegorical and symbolic meanings.The young writer’s marriage provided a thematic basis for this allegorical romance, in which the protagonist vainly seeks a lost, ideal purity.
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