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The Piazza Tales (Paperback)
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The Piazza Tales (Paperback)
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Herman Melville's 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 Melville's 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 Melville's 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.
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