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The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855.
- Herman Melville
- 1856
18 de mai. de 2005 · The Piazza Tales Contents: The Piazza -- Bartleby -- Benito Cereno -- The Lightning-Rod Man -- The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles -- The Bell-Tower. Credits: Dave Maddock, Josephine Paolucci, Joshua Hutchinson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Language: English: LoC Class
- Herman Melville
- English
- 1856
- The Piazza Tales
The Piazza Tales is a collection of stories by Herman Melville. It was published in 1856. Of the stories contained in the book, five of six had previously appeared in Putnam's Monthly magazine; only the title story, "The Piazza," was original to the book.
This series of stories opens with “The Piazza,” a semi-autobiographical tale about longing, expectation and reality. The narrator’s visions of a magical fairyland are crumbled when he makes the long journey to the house whose lights dazzle him from afar only to find it a modest shack peopled by the lonely Marianna (she often daydreams of ...
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Unlike Melville's earlier works, The Piazza Tales is not a full-length novel but a collection of six short pieces. One of these, The Piazza, was written by Melville to serve as a title piece to the volume; the other five had previously been published in Putnam's Monthly Magazine.
27 de abr. de 2022 · Herman Melville. Publication date. 2022-04-27. Topics. librivox, audiobooks, short stories, bartleby, encantadas, enchanted isles, benito cereno, manners and customs. Language.
18 de mai. de 2005 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Piazza Tales, by Herman Melville This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
