Herman Melville

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville

The Piazza Tales By Herman Melville 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 and in Britain in June. 1. The Piazza 2. Bartleby 3. Benito Cereno 4. The Lightning-Rod Man 5. The Encantadas 6. The Bell-Tower In addition to the five stories, Melville wrote an introductory story for which the volume was titled. Scholar Douglas Robillard believes that this served the purpose of making the stories to appear "more closely joined than they actually are."