Two sailors desert a whaler in the Marquesas and walk into a valley whose people treat them with perfect kindness and will not let them leave. Melville had done exactly this at twenty-two; the book made him famous as the man who lived among cannibals, his publisher cut the attacks on the missionaries, and he spent the rest of his life being asked whether it was true.
Engels
The Cloister and the Hearth
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
A Cumberland Vendetta
The Heart's Highway : A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The Lady of Blossholme
The Trampling of the Lilies
The Companions of Jehu
Frederick the Great and His Family : A Historical Novel
Elissa : Or, The Doom of Zimbabwe
The Men of the Moss-Hags : Being a History of Adventure Taken from the Papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway
The Elixir
Scaramouche : A Romance of the French Revolution
