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The Piazza Tales de Herman Melville

The Piazza Tales

Autor Herman Melville
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 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: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: ALMA BOOKS
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Herman Melville: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Piazza Tales
  • “The Piazza”
  • “Bartleby”
  • “Benito Cereno”
  • “The Lightning-Rod Man”
  • “The Encantadas; or Enchanted Isles”
  • “The Bell-Tower”
Appendix A: The Art of the Short Story and the Romance
  1. From Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses” (1850)
  2. From Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales (1842)
  3. Review of The Piazza Tales in United States Democratic Review (September 1856)
  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1852)
Appendix B: Race, Slavery, and Inequality
  1. From Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817)
  2. From Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853)
  3. From George Lippard, New York, Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854)
  4. From John Quincy Adams, Argument of John Quincy Adams (1841)
  5. The Slave Deck of the Bark “Wildfire,” Brought into Key West on April 30, 1860
Appendix C: Allusions to Poetry and the Bible
  1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Mariana” (1830)
  2. “Inscription for the Back of a Bank-Note” (1853)
  3. Matthew 5:38–48, King James Bible
  4. Job 3:1–26, King James Bible
  5. Judges 4:4–22, King James Bible
Appendix D: Science and Philosophy
  1. From Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches (1839)
  2. From Jonathan Edwards, A Careful and Strict Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will (1754)
  3. sFrom Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated (1777)
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Notă biografică

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. Herman Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.