Piazza Tales

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Humorous Fiction, Single Author Collections, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Herman Melville In Year : 1856

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Piazza Tales

Chapter 1 - The Piazza
Chapter 2A - Bartleby Part 1
Chapter 2B - Bartleby Part 2
Chapter 3A - Benito Cereno Part 1
Chapter 3B - Benito Cereno Part 2
Chapter 3C - Benito Cereno Part 3
Chapter 3D - Benito Cereno Part 4
Chapter 4 - The Lightning-Rod Man
Chapter 5-A - The Encantadas - Sketch First. The Isles at Large.
Chapter 5-B - The Encantadas - Sketch Second. Two Sides to a Tortoise
Chapter 5-C - The Encantadas - Sketch Third. Rock Rodondo
Chapter 5-D - The Encantadas - Sketch Fourth. A Pisgah View from the Rock.
Chapter 5-E - The Encantadas - Sketch Fifth. The Frigate, and the Flyaway.
Chapter 5-F - The Encantadas - Sketch Sixth. Barrington Isle and the Buccaneers.
Chapter 5-G - The Encantadas - Sketch Seventh. Charles's Isle and the Dog-King.
Chapter 5-H - The Encantadas - Sketch Eighth. Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow.
Chapter 5-I - The Encantadas - Sketch Ninth. Hood's Isle and the Hermit Oberlus.
Chapter 5-J - The Encantadas - Sketch Tenth. Runaways, Castaways, Solitaries, Grave-stones, etc.
Chapter 6 - The Bell-Tower

A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.) One should note that the era's prevalent racism occasionally surfaces, as in describing blacks as "indisputable inferiors", to be found in "Benito Cereno". (Summary by John Greenman)