by Herman Melville
edited by G. Thomas Tanselle, Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker
Northwestern University Press, 1996
eISBN: 978-0-8101-2015-0 | Paper: 978-0-8101-1467-8
Library of Congress Classification PS2384.P4 1996b
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.3

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).