When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, James A. Michener was an obscure textbook editor working in New York. Within three years, he was a naval officer statio

The island nations of the South Pacific have an incredible oral history, their folklore and myths past down through the generations. This book is a fantastic co

Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).

Stories deal with injustice, greed, brutality, materialism, the unconscious, and the harshness of nature.

Tales of the South Pacific is the iconic, Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece that inspired a Broadway classic and launched the career of James A. Michener, on