The piazza tales and other prose pieces, 1839-1860
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The piazza tales and other prose pieces, 1839-1860
（The writings of Herman Melville, v. 9）
Northwestern University Press , Newberry Library, 1987
The Northwestern-Newberry ed
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Note
"Historical note [by Merton M. Sealts, Jr.]": p. 457-533
Contents of Works
- The piazza
- Bartleby, the scrivener
- Benito Cereno
- The lightning-rod man
- The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles
- The bell-tower
- Fragments from a writing desk
- Etchings of a whaling cruise
- Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack"
- Mr Parkman's tour
- Cooper's new novel
- A thought on book-binding
- Hawthorne and his Mosses
- The happy failure
- The fiddler
- Cock-a-doodle-doo!
- Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs
- The two temples
- The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
- Jimmy Rose
- The 'Gees
- I and my chimney
- The apple-tree table
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this new 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 tests 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 attention as well. Whether in the exotic Galapagos or the more familiar climes of Wall Street or a Massachusetts farmhouse, Melville's power and imagination transport the reader into his unique worlds. This scholarly edition presents texts as close to the author's intentions as surviving evidence permits. Based on surviving manuscripts, on original newspaper and magazine printings, and on collations of magazine printings with the book of editions of The Piazza Tales, the text incorporates over 800 emendations by the editors and over 200 from later printings during Melville's lifetime.
This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
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