The Piazza Tales  by Herman Melville

First published in the year 1856, the present book ‘The Piazza Tales’ is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville. The collection includes what has long been regarded as 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 Galápagos Islands.