Books : Piazza Tales (Melville)
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by: Herman Melville
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780810114678
ISBN: 0810114674
Label: Northwestern University Press
Manufacturer: Northwestern University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 847
Publication Date: November 18, 1996
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Sales Rank: 1244662
Studio: Northwestern University Press
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Product Description:
Published in 1856, The Piazza Tales were written upon the public indignation over his novel Pierre, which had forced Melville to retire to the piazza of his house in Lenox, Massachusetts. The six tales included here are among Melville's most notable writings. They include the famed tale 'Bartleby' a story of slavery, 'Benito Cereno,' 'The Encantadas,' 'The Lightning-Rod Man,' 'The Bell-Tower,' and the title story, 'The Piazza.'
Although Herman Melville published ten books during his lifetime, and left unpublished a masterwork, Billy Budd, he died in relative obscurity in 1891.
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Rating:  - Six tales (including perhaps the best story ever written in English) showing how "truth comes in darkness"
The six stories collected in "The Piazza Tales" range vastly in theme and subject, from the allegorical travelogue of "The Encantadas" to the haunting psychodrama of "Bartleby, the Scrivener." With the exception of the title story (which was original to the collection), they each were published in "Putnam's Magazine," where they were well received and widely read. Although the book (like all of Meville's later work) was a commercial flop, the stories are highly regarded--and rarely read--today.
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Rating:  - The Lighting-Rod Man
The Lighting-Rod Man is one of Melville's lesser known stories. Despite the cold, dark setting, it is more comical than most of his works other works. This satire tells about one door-to-door salesman, and how annoying, pushy, and arrogant he was to his perspective customer (Doesn't seem like a lot has change since then), and how he ends up getting thrown out of the house.
The story The Lighting-Rod Man jumps right into the story in the first paragraph and just goes, which makes it much easier ... Read More
Rating: - brillaint and terrifying
Put simply, this is the best collection of short stories by any American author.
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