{"product_id":"9781847497222","title":"The Piazza Tales : Annotated Edition by Herman Melville","description":"This 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 Gal?pagos Islands which was a huge success with the reading public and contains some of Melville's most celebrated prose.   Also 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 Moby Dick at his most uncompromising and compelling.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308504559989,"sku":"9781847497222","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847497222.jpg?v=1762807834","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781847497222","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}