The Piazza Tales
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About This Book
The Piazza Tales is a collection of Herman Melville short stories including: The Piazza, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles, The Bell-Tower. Herman Melville was an American writer of novels, short stories and poetry. Melville was a schoolteacher for a short time and a seaman. On his first voyage he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. His first book, Typee, was an account of that time and became a bestseller and Melville became known as the "man who lived among the cannibals." Public indifference to Moby-Dick put an end to his care...
Chapters (17)
- The Piazza Tales
- THE PIAZZA.
- BARTLEBY.
- BENITO CERENO.
- THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN.
- THE ENCANTADAS; OR, ENCHANTED ISLES
- SKETCH FIRST. THE ISLES AT LARGE.
- SKETCH SECOND. TWO SIDES TO A TORTOISE.
- SKETCH THIRD. ROCK RODONDO.
- SKETCH FOURTH. A PISGAH VIEW FROM THE ROCK.
- SKETCH FIFTH. THE FRIGATE, AND SHIP FLYAWAY.
- SKETCH SIXTH. BARRINGTON ISLE AND THE BUCCANEERS.
- SKETCH SEVENTH. CHARLES’S ISLE AND THE DOG-KING.
- SKETCH EIGHTH. NORFOLK ISLE AND THE CHOLA WIDOW.
- SKETCH NINTH. HOOD’S ISLE AND THE HERMIT OBERLUS.
- SKETCH TENTH. RUNAWAYS, CASTAWAYS, SOLITARIES, GRAVE-STONES, ETC.
- THE BELL-TOWER.
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