Product Description: Book by Tanselle, G. Thomas

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Presents a collection of the writings of Herman Melville. (view table of contents)

The Piazza Tales (1856) is the second collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville. It was published with Dix & Edwards in the United States and a British edition followed shortly afterward. Except for the title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly, the first being Bartleby, the Scrivener in 1853. Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but it was The Encantadas, his sketches of the Galápagos Islands, that garnered the most attention from critics. Even though The Piazza Tales received largely favorable reviews, it did not sell well enough to get Melville out of his financial straits.

Product Description: Expanded edition. The second half of the twentieth century was one of the most active and provocative periods in the long history of textual criticism. This series of six critical essays surveys theoretical writings in the field from 1950 to 2000 and more than doubles the size of the 1987 edition...read more

Product Description: White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS United States...read more