The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville Fiction Classics Literary

<p><strong>Except for the title story The Piazza all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly the first being Bartleby the Scrivener in 1853.</strong></p><p>Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches but it was The Encantadas his sketches of the Gal��pagos Islands that garnered the most attention from critics.</p><p>Included in this collection are six tales that range considerably -- from The Encantadas (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting Bartleby the Scrivener.</p><p>Opening the volume is The Piazza a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. Benito Cerenno -- a subversive satire -- it grows out of a true story of mutiny among the enslaved . . .</p>