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The Piazza Tales

English

By (author): Herman Melville

Herman Melvilles The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cerenoalong with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up TheEncantadas and three more short stories: The Piazza, The Bell-Tower, and The Lightning-Rod Man. This edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free willand determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in ThePiazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melvilles cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville sethis stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to thePacific coast of South America and southern Europe.

This edition is especially concerned with Melvilles engagement with both political questions related toslavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short story tradition as developed by hisnear contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 335g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781554813100

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