The Piazza Tales: Bartleby, Benito Cereno and Other Stories
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Chambers and John Frederick Kensett. Six pieces from the years when America had stopped reading him: a Wall Street clerk who prefers not to, a slave ship whose captain is not the master, an island of enchanted tortoises, a lightning-rod salesman. Melville shipped out on a whaler at twenty-one; by the time he wrote these he was writing for almost no one, and Bartleby has outlived everything published beside it. Sixty plates of American painting, from Benjamin West to Winslow Homer, carry the moods of the book: weatherbeaten faces, seaside horns, and breakers on a sandy shore.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Chambers and John Frederick Kensett. Six pieces from the years when America had stopped reading him: a Wall Street clerk who prefers not to, a slave ship whose captain is not the master, an island of enchanted tortoises, a...
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Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist and short story writer. He drew on his years at sea for novels including Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Redburn (1849), and later published the story collection The Piazza Tales (1856). From 1866 to 1885 he worked as a customs inspector in New York City.
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist and short story writer. He drew on his years at sea for novels including Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Redburn (1849), and later published the story collection The Piazza Tales (1856). From 1866 to 1885 he worked as a customs inspector in New ...
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