The Piazza Tales - Herman Melville - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781542539326 - January 14, 2017
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Herman Melville
The Piazza Tales

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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. The title story takes the narrator on a trek from his isolated Central American home to a still more isolated house seen in the distance were he meets - but the less said the better. It's a memorable, unlikely yet plausible tale of two human beings' incapacity to communicate. "The Encantadas" and "Benito Cereno" are sea stories, while "Bartleby, the Scrivener" unfolds in a depressing, viewless Wall Street office, not the venue one expects for a work by Melville. It is - not unlike other Melville works, but to a much greater degree - a very sociological work...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 14, 2017
ISBN13 9781542539326
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 218
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 12 mm   ·   299 g
Language English  

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