The Piazza Tales

The Piazza Tales

by Herman Melville
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Publisher:
Alma Classics
Genre:Fiction
Language: en
Published:September 25, 2018
ISBN13:9781847497222
ISBN10:1847497225

About the Book

This volume, first published in 1856, collects three of Melville's most important pieces of prose fiction. In 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young clerk called Bartleby, whose sudden and mysterious refusal to work plunges the firm into disarray. 'Benito Cereno' is a historical account of a mutiny on a slave ship, which has been seen as a critique of slavery and contemporary attitudes towards race. 'The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles' is a series of travel sketches about the Galápagos Islands which was a huge success with the reading public and contains some of Melville's most celebrated prose. Also included in this volume are 'The Lightning-Rod Man', 'The Bell Tower' and a story written especially for the collection, 'The Piazza'. Taken together, these tales, in their masterful use of irony and concision, show the author of Moby Dick in a different light.