The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856...

Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an...

The Piazza may refer to: John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar The first story in Melville's The Piazza Tales Piazza (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

currents around them. It was collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. The Encantadas was a success with the critics and contains some of Melville's "most...

in his short story collection The Piazza Tales that appeared in May 1856. According to scholar Merton M. Sealts Jr., the story is "an oblique comment on...

when they would appear. The Piazza Tales was the only collection of Melville's stories published under his direct supervision. The volume sold slowly in...

major works: the novels Moby-Dick, Pierre (dedicated to nearby Mount Greylock), The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter; The Piazza Tales (a short story...

legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story...

collection of the short fiction. The collection, titled The Piazza Tales, was named after a new introductory story Melville wrote for it, "The Piazza". It also...

Cereno", which were written during the same period and included the following year in The Piazza Tales. It followed the disastrous critical and commercial...