The Piazza Tales

by Herman Melville

Author of “Typee,” “Omoo,” etc., etc., etc.

New York;
Dix & Edwards, 321 Broadway.
London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.
Miller & Holman,
Printers & Stereotypers, N.Y.

1856


Contents

[The Piazza]
[Bartleby]
[Benito Cereno]
[The Lightning-Rod Man]
[The Encantadas]
[The Bell-Tower]

THE PIAZZA.

“With fairest flowers,
Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele—”