Las encantadas es un libro delicioso compuesto por diez fragmentos descriptivos de las islas Galapagos. Melville encontro en estas islas un escenario ideal donde proyectar o del que extraer temas que le obsesionaban de manera pertinaz.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville was first published on April 1st 1857, April Fools Day, The same day as the setting for the book. The novel is a tale of interlocking stories sold in the style of the Canterbury Tales, about a group of travelers on a steamboat as they make their way down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Reviews were not positive but that has changes as noted, "Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, though it continues to resist interpretive consensus." It is now viewed as a classic work or...