{"product_id":"piazza-tales-1","title":"Piazza Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville’s masterpieces. In ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’, a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young clerk called Bartleby, whose sudden and mysterious refusal to work plunges the firm into disarray. ‘Benito Cereno’ is the account of a mutiny on a slave ship, based on the real-life journals of an American sea captain. ‘The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles’ is a series of sketches about the Galápagos Islands which was a huge success with the reading public and contains some of Melville’s most celebrated prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso included in this volume are ‘The Lightning-Rod Man’, ‘The Bell Tower’ and a story written especially for the collection, ‘The Piazza’. Taken together, these tales, in their masterful use of irony and concision, display the author of \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e at his most uncompromising and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316607820158,"sku":"NW9781847497222","price":8.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781847497222.jpg?v=1778719315","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/piazza-tales-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}