The Piazza TalesThe Floating Press, 1. 6. 2010 - 248 strán (strany) The critically acclaimed author of that behemoth of nineteenth-century fiction, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an accomplished short story writer whom critics say did much to advance the form. The Piazza Tales collects many of Melville's best-known short works, including "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno." |
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Strana 12
... face those hills. At length, when pretty well again, and sitting out, in the September morning, upon the piazza, and thinking to myself, when, just after a little flock of sheep, the farmer's banded children passed, a-nutting, and said ...
... face those hills. At length, when pretty well again, and sitting out, in the September morning, upon the piazza, and thinking to myself, when, just after a little flock of sheep, the farmer's banded children passed, a-nutting, and said ...
Strana 22
... face?" "The shadow's? You speak as if you saw it, and all the time your eyes are on your work." "Tray looks at you," still without glancing up; "this is his hour; I see him." "Have you then, so long sat at this mountain-window, where ...
... face?" "The shadow's? You speak as if you saw it, and all the time your eyes are on your work." "Tray looks at you," still without glancing up; "this is his hour; I see him." "Have you then, so long sat at this mountain-window, where ...
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... faces—is it so?" "That way I never thought of it. But the friendliest one, that used to soothe my weariness so much, coolly quivering on the ferns, it was taken from me, never to return, as Tray did just now. The shadow of a birch. The ...
... faces—is it so?" "That way I never thought of it. But the friendliest one, that used to soothe my weariness so much, coolly quivering on the ferns, it was taken from me, never to return, as Tray did just now. The shadow of a birch. The ...
Strana 26
... face behind it. But, every night, when the curtain falls, truth comes in with darkness. No light shows from the mountain. To and fro I walk the piazza deck, haunted by Marianna's face, and many as real a story. Bartleby, the Scrivener ...
... face behind it. But, every night, when the curtain falls, truth comes in with darkness. No light shows from the mountain. To and fro I walk the piazza deck, haunted by Marianna's face, and many as real a story. Bartleby, the Scrivener ...
Strana 30
... face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o'clock, meridian—his dinner hour—it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing—but, as it were, with a gradual wane—till six o'clock, P.M., or thereabouts; after ...
... face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o'clock, meridian—his dinner hour—it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing—but, as it were, with a gradual wane—till six o'clock, P.M., or thereabouts; after ...
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Benito Cereno | 89 |
The LightningRod Man | 226 |
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles | 239 |
The BellTower | 323 |
Endnotes | 348 |
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