Isle of the Cross (c. 1853) was an unpublished and subsequently lost novel by Herman Melville.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.
Some consider that Melville’s later short story titled Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow,[1] the eighth sketch of The Encantadas, Melville’s tale of a grief-struck lady named Hunilla is a shorter rewrite of Isle of the Cross.[2] The novel "The Secret of Lost Things" by Sheridan Hay partially revolves around "Isle of the Cross" as a central plot point. In the novel, one of the characters, Walter Geist, is secretly purchasing the original manuscript.
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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Uncollected/unpublished poems: "Epistle to Daniel Shepherd" · "Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh" · "The Admiral of the White" · "To Tom" · "Suggested by the Ruins of a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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