The Encantadas
1854 novella by Herman Melville / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about 1854 novella by Herman Melville. For the Roman sculptures, see Las Incantadas.
"The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles", is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of eleven philosophical "Sketches" on the Galápagos Islands, then frequently known as the "Enchanted Islands" (Spanish: Islas Encantadas) from the treacherous winds and currents around them. It was collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. The Encantadas was a success with the critics[1] and contains some of Melville's "most memorable prose".[2]