The Piazza Tales
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Herman Melville., & Herman Melville|AUTHOR. (2021). The Piazza Tales . Mint Editions.

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Herman Melville and Herman Melville|AUTHOR. 2021. The Piazza Tales. Mint Editions.

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Herman Melville and Herman Melville|AUTHOR. The Piazza Tales Mint Editions, 2021.

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Herman Melville, and Herman Melville|AUTHOR. The Piazza Tales Mint Editions, 2021.

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In "The Piazza," a man buys an old farmhouse with a view on the nearby mountains. Despite his fortune, he spends his days longing for more, wishing his home had its own piazza so he could share the beauty of the surrounding landscape with guests. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a story set at an anonymous law office on Wall Street where a mysterious clerk suddenly refuses to do his work. Amused at first, the lawyer who narrates the story is eventually overcome with frustration, and struggles to rid himself of the intractable Bartleby. In "Benito Cereno," a merchant ship captain sailing around the coast of Chile chances on a slave ship in distress. Hoping to assist its captain and crew, he boards their ship, unwittingly stumbling on a dangerous and volatile situation. The Piazza Tales is a collection of some of American literary icon Herman Melville's most celebrated stories.
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