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Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably — from “The Encantadas” (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” Opening the volume is “The Piazza,” a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. “Benito Cereno” — a subversive satire — of grows out of a true story of mutiny among the enslaved . . .

1.”The Piazza”
2.”Bartleby the Scrivener” (first published in Putnam’s November and December 1853)
3.”Benito Cereno” (first published in Putnam’s October, November and December 1855)
4.”The Lightning-Rod Man” (first published in Putnam’s August 1854)
5.”The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles” (first published in Putnam’s March, April, and May 1854)
6.”The Bell-Tower” (first published in Putnam’s August 1855)

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Celebrated American author Herman Melville wrote ‘Sarah Waters’ pdf book and several other sea-adventure novels before turning to poetry later in his literary career. Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. He worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839, his experiences spawning his successful early novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Subsequent books, including his masterpiece Moby-Dick pdf(1851), sold poorly, and by the 1860s Melville had turned to poetry. Following his death in New York City in 1891, he posthumously came to be regarded as one of the great American writers. Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, to Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill (Maria added the “e” to the family name following her husband’s death). In the mid-1820s, young Melville fell ill to scarlet fever, and though he regained his health not long afterward, his vision was left permanently impaired by the illness.