The Piazza Tales 廣場故事

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 298 pages
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Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554813100

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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 that make up “The Encantadas,” as well as 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.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005726273

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Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cerenno" -- a subversive satire -- of grows out of a true story of mutiny among the enslaved . . .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637318778

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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541258207

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The Piazza Tales By Herman Melville The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly in 1853-1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as the author's three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," and "The Encantadas," his sketches of the Galapagos Islands. Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story. The book received largely favorable reviews, with reviewers especially praising "The Encantadas," but did not sell well enough to get Melville out of his financial straits, probably because short fiction for magazines had little appeal to bookbuyers. After Melville was rediscovered until the end of the twentieth century, the short works attracting the most critical attention were "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno" and "The Encantadas," with "The Piazza" a little behind those."

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1718930755

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The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly in 1853-1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as the author's three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539597032

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it is an excellent short story book for individuals who loves stories.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Short stories
ISBN : PSU:000030501669

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Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cerenno" -- a subversive satire -- of grows out of a true story of mutiny among the enslaved . . .

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1078435391

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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."

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521959226

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville The Piazza Tales is a collection of six stories by American writer Herman Melville. In "The Piazza", the protagonist idealizes a radiant spot on the mountain he looks upon from his piazza. This spot is a house and one day he goes to the cottage, only to find the unhappy girl Marianna, who longs to see the lucky individual who lives in the white house she looks upon from her window. The narrator understands that he himself has been the object of a fantasy not unlike his own, and leaves thinking how all idealism is an illusion. In addition to numerous biblical and mythological references, which Sealts calls "a familiar Melvillean pattern," the story alludes to Emerson's essay "The Problem", Don Quixote and Paradise Lost, and explicitly namechecks Edmund Spenser. The narrator points to some plays by Shakespeare, and according to Sealts, the girl Marianna should remind the reader of both the Marianna in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Marianna.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798646066986

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When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been [pg 002] chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness. Whoever built the house, he builded better than he knew; or else Orion in the zenith flashed down his Damocles' sword to him some starry night, and said, "Build there." For how, otherwise, could it have entered the builder's mind, that, upon the clearing being made, such a purple prospect would be his?-nothing less than Greylock, with all his hills about him, like Charlemagne among his peers. Now, for a house, so situated in such a country, to have no piazza for the convenience of [pg 003] those who might desire to feast upon the view, and take their time and ease about it, seemed as much of an omission as if a picture-gallery should have no bench; for what but picture-galleries are the marble halls of these same limestone hills?- galleries hung, month after month anew, with pictures ever fading into pictures ever fresh. And beauty is like piety-you cannot run and read it; tranquillity and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. For though, of old, when reverence was in vogue, and indolence was not, the devotees of Nature, doubtless, used to stand and adore-just as, in the cathedrals of those ages, the worshipers of a higher Power did- yet, in these times of failing faith and feeble knees, we have the piazza and the pew.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1512348333

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When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798552085767

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A collection of six short stories first published in 1856. This was Melville's only short story collection, and it consisted of the following tales: The Piazza; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; The Lightning-rod Man; The Encantadas or, Enchanted Isles; and, The Bell-tower.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508987378

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The Piazza Tales, the Original Classic Short Story Collection by Herman Melville Pdf

The Piazza Tales is a collection of short stories, all written by Herman Melville. The stories include:* THE PIAZZA * BARTLEBY * BENITO CERENO * THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN * THE ENCANTADAS * THE BELL-TOWER

Author : 陶洁
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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本书收入了美国文学史上占有一定的地位，而且在主题、手法、文体风格或种族、性别等方面有一定的代表性的30余位作家的经典作品。