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Isle of the Cross (c. 1853) was an unpublished and subsequently lost novel by Herman Melville. The work was completed after the commercial failures of Moby-Dick and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. Concerned about poor reviews of Pierre, and Melville's continuing viability as a successful novelist, the work was rejected by his publisher, Harper & Brothers.
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Works by Herman Melville |
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"The Piazza" · " Bartleby, the Scrivener" · " Benito Cereno" · "The Lightning-Rod Man" · " The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" · "The Bell-Tower" (all 1856)
Uncollected : "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" (1853) · "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" (1854) · "The Happy Failure" (1854) · "The Fiddler" (1854) · "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" (1855) · "Jimmy Rose" (1855) · "The 'Gees" (1856) · "I and My Chimney" (1856) · "The Apple-Tree Table" (1856)
Unpublished in Melville's lifetime : "The Two Temples" · "Daniel Orme" |
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Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) · Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) · John Marr and Other Sailors (1888) · Timoleon (1891) · Weeds and Wildings, and a Rose or Two (1924)
Uncollected/unpublished poems: "Epistle to Daniel Shepherd" · "Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh" · "The Admiral of the White" · "To Tom" · "Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-temple in Arcadia" · "Puzzlement" · "The Continents" · "The Dust-Layers" · "A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855" · "A Reasonable Constitution" · "Rammon" · "A Ditty of Aristippus" · "In a Nutshell" · "Adieu"
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