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The piazza tales

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An edition of Piazza Tales (1856)

The piazza tales

Northwestern-Newberry ed.

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In this new reprint of the six stories that comprised the 1856 edition of The Piazza Tales, the editors of the acclaimed Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville have used the original magazine versions for five of the six stories in order to present the most accurate texts of these works. Here, in such famous stories as "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles," we find Melville's imagination and style at its best.

Of the less well-known tales, the humor in "The Piazza" and "The Lightning-Rod Man," and the gothic horror of "The Bell Tower," command our careful attention as well.

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Northwestern University Press
Language
English
Pages
187

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Subjects
American Short Stories, Manners and customs in fiction, Manners and customs, Fiction, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, American literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
People
Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Benito Cereno
Places
New York, Wall Street
Times
19th century

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Cover of: The Piazza Tales
The Piazza Tales
2005, ICON Classics, ICON Group International, Inc.
in English and Spanish - Webster's Spanish Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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The Piazza Tales
2005, ICON Classics
in English and German - Webster's German Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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The Piazza Tales
2005, ICON Classics
Paperback in English - Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition
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The Piazza Tales
2005, ICON Classics
Paperback in English and French - Webster's French Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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The Piazza Tales
2005 05 18, Project Gutenberg
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Cuentos de la veranda
1997, Cien del Mundo / Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Paperback in Spanish - 1a. ed. en Cien del mundo.
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The piazza tales
1996, Northwestern University Press
in English - Northwestern-Newberry ed.
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The Piazza Tales
1996, Modern Library
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The Piazza Tales
1963, Russell & Russell
Hardcover in English - Standard ed.
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Piazza Tales
1948, Hendricks House, Farrar Straus
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

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Edition Notes

"The authoritative edition"--Cover.
"First published in 1987 as part of volume 9 of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of The writings of Herman Melville : The piazza tales and other prose pieces, 1839-1860"--T.p. verso.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.3
Library of Congress
PS2384 .P4 1996b, PS2384.P4 1996b

The Physical Object

Pagination
187 p. ;
Number of pages
187

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL995414M
Internet Archive
piazzatales0000melv_t2q5
ISBN 10
0810114674
LCCN
96034027
OCLC/WorldCat
35174982
Library Thing
322606
Goodreads
597314

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6 Tales

  • The Piazza
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener
  • Benito Cereno
  • The Lightning-Rod Man
  • The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Islands
  • The Bell-Tower


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