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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 mag 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
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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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.
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 mag 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
Books. The Piazza Tales. Herman Melville. The Floating Press, Jun 1, 2010 - Fiction - 248 pages. The critically acclaimed author of that behemoth of nineteenth-century fiction, Moby-Dick,...
