EPISODE · Jun 26, 2018 · 9H 56M
The Piazza Tales (Authored by Herman Melville)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Piazza Tales Author: Herman Melville Narrator: Pete Cross, Michael Lackey, Mark Owen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 26, 2018 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Written in seclusion following the intense negative public reaction to the publication of his novel Pierre, The Piazza Tales is Melville's accessible and entertaining collection of short stories concerning love, labor and loss. The collection includes the author's three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and The Encantadas, his sketches of the Galapagos Islands. Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story, which concerns the coincidental meeting of mutual long-distance admirers separated by a valley in the mountains.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Piazza Tales Author: Herman Melville Narrator: Pete Cross, Michael Lackey, Mark Owen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 26, 2018 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Written in seclusion following the intense negative public reaction to the publication of his novel Pierre, The Piazza Tales is Melville's accessible and entertaining collection of short stories concerning love, labor and loss. The collection includes the author's three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and The Encantadas, his sketches of the Galapagos Islands. Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story, which concerns the coincidental meeting of mutual long-distance admirers separated by a valley in the mountains.
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