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Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860 : Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville)
Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860 Volume Nine Scholarly Edition - Melville Author:Herman Melville First published in 1856, The Piazza Tales were written after the public indignation over Melville's Pierre, which forced him to to retire to the piazza of his house in Lenox, Massachusetts. The short stories and sketches range from "Benito Cereno," the drama of a captain stranded at sea with a cargo of slaves, to "Bartleby," the account o... more »f a law-clerk who persistently "would prefer not to."« less