The Piazza Tales (Esprios Classics)

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The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix and Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, The Piazza, all of the stories had appeared in Putnam’s Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what have long been regarded as three of Melville’s most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, Bartleby, the Scrivener , Benito Cereno , and The Encantadas , his sketches of the Galapagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.)