The complete online text of The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville.

Herman Melville drew upon his adventurous travels on sea and land for the primary materials of his greatest fiction and poetry. Out of his experiences in the merchant service (1839), the whaling industry (1841- 1843), and the United States Navy (1843-184...

Herman Melville, who died almost forgotten although he had once been a popular author and had left behind ten notable books of prose fiction and four of verse, has gathered increasing fame, especially for his metaphysical whaling novel, Moby-Dick (1851)....

Herman Melville, who died almost forgotten although he had once been a popular author and had left behind ten notable books of prose fiction and four of verse, has gathered increasing fame, especially for his metaphysical whaling novel, Moby-Dick. Like m...

Absent among the major studies of Melville's short fiction is discussion of his style at it relates to his larger rhetorical choices during the writing of his serialized fiction, 1853-56. If style as a rhetorical choice is central to Mardi, Moby-Dick, and Pierre, then...

BOB KLAPISCH The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-25-2006 LEFTOVER PIAZZA -- Catcher-turned-DH would hit the spot in Bronx BOB KLAPISCH Date: 01-25-2006, Wednesday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions The phone call from out of nowhere if not left field, then at...