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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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Melville?s short-story collection gathers Bartleby?s quiet refusal in a Wall Street office, the uneasy secrets of the slave ship in Benito Cereno, and The Encantadas? Gal?pagos sketches of desolate islands and human wreckage. Morality and mystery in spare, exact prose. Spoken as when a scrivener?s preference and an island chain both refuse easy answers.

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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