The Piazza Tales

Author : Herman Melville

Paperback

Published : Thursday 25 February 2021

ISBN : 9781513270029

Price : €9.35

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 Putnamâ?Ts 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 Melvilleâ?Ts 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 â?oThe Piazza,â?? 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. â?oBartleby, the Scrivenerâ?? 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 â?oBenito Cereno,â?? 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 Melvilleâ?Ts most celebrated stories. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Herman Melvilleâ?Ts The Piazza Tales is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

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