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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
- United States
- 1856
- English
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
First British edition distributed by Sampson, Low, Son & Co., London. 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 ...
18 de mai. de 2005 · The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville. Author of “Typee,” “Omoo,” etc., etc., etc. New York; Dix & Edwards, 321 Broadway. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. Miller & Holman, Printers & Stereotypers, N.Y. 1856
Summary. 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.
Piazza to the north! Winter piazza! Wants, of winter midnights, to watch the Aurora Borealis, I suppose; hope he's laid in good store of Polar muffs and mittens. That was in the lion month of March. Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.
Dix & Edwards, 1856 - Literary Criticism - 431 pages. Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the...
