Herman Melville

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The Piazza TalesPaperback, 12 January 2021

The Piazza Tales
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Mint Editions (Short Story Collections and Anthologies)
Part of Series
Mint Editions
Part of Series
Mint Editions--Short Story Collections and Anthologies
Print Length
202 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Mint Editions
Date Published
12 Jan 2021
ISBN-10
1513270028
ISBN-13
9781513270029

Description

The Piazza Tales (1856) is a collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville. Before publication, five of its six stories appeared in Putnam's Monthly during a period of productivity with which Melville sought to achieve popular success as a writer of literary fiction. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work, and contemporary reviews of The Piazza Tales were negative to lukewarm at best. When Melville's work was reappraised in the 1920s, scholars recognized these stories as not only well-composed, but keenly focused on the dominant ethical and sociopolitical issues of their day.

In "The Piazza," a man buys an old farmhouse with a view on the nearby mountains. Despite his fortune, he spends his days longing for more, wishing his home had its own piazza so he could share the beauty of the surrounding landscape with guests. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a story set at an anonymous law office on Wall Street where a mysterious clerk suddenly refuses to do his work. Amused at first, the lawyer who narrates the story is eventually overcome with frustration and struggles to rid himself of the intractable Bartleby. In "Benito Cereno," a merchant ship captain sailing around the coast of Chile chances on a slave ship in distress. Hoping to assist its captain and crew, he boards their ship, unwittingly stumbling on a dangerous and volatile situation. The Piazza Tales is a collection of some of American literary icon Herman Melville's most celebrated stories.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Product Details

Author:
Herman Melville
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
12 January 2021
Dimensions:
20.32 x 12.7 x 1.09 cm
ISBN-10:
1513270028
ISBN-13:
9781513270029
Language:
English
Location:
Berkeley
Pages:
202
Publisher:
Weight:
204.12 gm

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