The Piazza Tales

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Chambers and John Frederick Kensett. Six pieces from the years when America had stopped reading him: a Wall Street clerk who prefers not to, a slave ship whose captain is not the master, an island of enchanted tortoises, a lightning-rod salesman. Melville shipped out on a whaler at twenty-one; by the time he wrote these he ...