Mardi Vol. 2 by MELVILLE, Herman

Mardi is Melvilles first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates mans beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham? Mardi is a poetically existential analysis of religious truths as told through the protagonists allegorical wanderings across the South Pacific. But is this all that Mardi is? (Summary by James K. White)