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The Piazza tales

The Piazza tales

Melville, Herman

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Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1974486885
ISBN13: 9781974486885
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 30 2017
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Herman Melvilles The Piazza Tales is a collection of six classic short stories first published together in 1856. The stories are mainly about sailing, exploration and adventures.Benito Cereno, probably the authors favorite, is an account of a mutiny aboard a slave ship. It recounts the struggle between furious slaves who wish to redirect the ship and a crew led by Captain Cereno and Captain Delano. However, the critics attention has been much more drawn byThe Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles which is a narrative consisting of ten philosophical sketches related to the Galapagos Islands in the pacific ocean. The sketches describe the island, its fauna and flora and discuss the cruelty of life in such a desolate corner of the Earth. The anonymous narrator of the sketches presents his personal experiences with the sublime nature amid which he finds himself, revealing his extraordinary feelings, fears and musings. The remainder of the stories in this collection deal with similar themes of loss and isolation such as inBartelby the Scrivener,The Lightning-Rod Man andThe Bell Tower, while the story of the title,The Piazza, takes the form of an introduction to Melvilles poetic world of explorations and adventures.

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