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The Piazza Tales (1856) NOVEL by Herman Melville (World's Classics)
Herman Melville
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The Piazza Tales (1856) NOVEL by Herman Melville (World's Classics)
Herman Melville
Herman Melville[a] (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts. 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. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly in the preceding years,
Medie | Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg) |
Udgivet | 5. april 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9781530898398 |
Forlag | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Antal sider | 134 |
Mål | 203 × 254 × 7 mm · 281 g |
Sprog | Engelsk |
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