The Piazza Tales

The Piazza Tales is a collection of Herman Melville short stories including: The Piazza Bartleby the Scrivener Benito Cereno The Lightning-Rod Man The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles The Bell-Tower. Herman Melville was an American writer of novels short stories and poetry. Melville was a schoolteacher for a short time and a seaman. On his first voyage he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. His first book Typee was an account of that time and became a bestseller and Melville became known as the man who lived among the cannibals. Public indifference to Moby-Dick put an end to his career as a popular author. It was not until the Melville Revival in the early 20th century that his work won recognition.