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The Piazza Tales

Author
Herman Melville
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 21 minutes
ISBN
9781802566130
Published
14 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Herman Melville
  • Galapagos Islands
  • travel
  • adventure
  • freedom
  • American Romanticism
  • Romanticism
  • Classic
  • American novel
  • obsession

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"The Piazza Tales" by Herman Melville is a collection of short stories exploring the complexities of human experience. From the eerie "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to the adventurous "Benito Cereno," the tales traverse a range of themes. They delve into the enigmatic Bartleby's passive resistance, the dark secrets aboard a slave ship in "Benito Cereno," and the haunting quest for the White Whale in "The Encantadas." Through Melville's evocative prose, the collection offers a profound exploration of human nature, morality, and the mysteries that shape our lives.

Author

Herman Melville (1819–1891) wrote the American epic that almost nobody wanted until it was too late. Moby-Dick began as a whale hunt and became scripture, encyclopaedia, sermon, and storm — a novel that thinks in every direction at once. Melville had been to sea as a young man; Typee made him briefly famous for Polynesian adventure, then the public cooled as his books grew stranger and more metaphysical. He died in relative obscurity.

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