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The Piazza Tales: Annotated Edition de Herman Melville

The Piazza Tales: Annotated Edition

Autor Herman Melville
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iul 2018
This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville's masterpieces. In 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young clerk called Bartleby, whose sudden and mysterious refusal to work plunges the firm into disarray. 'Benito Cereno' is the account of a mutiny on a slave ship, based on the real-life journals of an American sea captain. 'The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles' is a series of sketches about the Galápagos Islands which was a huge success with the reading public and contains some of Melville's most celebrated prose.Also included in this volume are 'The Lightning-Rod Man', 'The Bell Tower' and a story written especially for the collection, 'The Piazza'. Taken together, these tales, in their masterful use of irony and concision, display the author of Moby Dick at his most uncompromising and compelling.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847497222
ISBN-10: 1847497225
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Also included in this volume are 'The Lightning-Rod Man', 'The Bell Tower' and a story written especially for the collection, 'The Piazza'

Notă biografică

Now considered one of America's greatest and most influential authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891) wrote novels, travel books and novellas inspired by his experiences in the merchant navy - with Moby Dick and Billy Budd generally regarded as his masterpieces.

Recenzii

It is Melville who establishes the benchmark for what the short story can attain and allows us to set the standards by which all the other great writers of the form can be measured.

Cuprins

Introduction; Chronology; Note on the text; The Piazza Tales; The Piazza; Bartleby, the Scrivener. A Tale of Wall-Street; 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 Bucaneers; Sketch Seventh: Charles' Isle and the Dog-King; Sketch Eigth: 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

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno" along with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up "The Encantadas" and three more short stories: "The Piazza," "The Bell-Tower," and "The Lightning-Rod Man." This new edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free will and determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in The Piazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melville's cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville set his stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to the Pacific coast of South America and southern Europe.
This edition is especially concerned with Melville's engagement with both political questions related to slavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short story tradition as developed by his near contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cereno, along with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands and three more short stories.