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Title: The Piazza Tales (The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville) by Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, G. Thomas Tanselle ISBN: 0-8101-1467-4 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Lighting-Rod Man
Comment: The Lighting-Rod Man is one of Melville's lesser known stories. Despite the cold, dark setting, it is more comical than most of his works other works. This satire tells about one door-to-door salesman, and how annoying, pushy, and arrogant he was to his perspective customer (Doesn't seem like a lot has change since then), and how he ends up getting thrown out of the house.
The story The Lighting-Rod Man jumps right into the story in the first paragraph and just goes, which makes it much easier to get into and a much easier read for those that have a hard time getting started reading. I feel that it is worthy buying The Piazza Tales even if you just read this one story let alone the five other stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: brillaint and terrifying
Comment: Put simply, this is the best collection of short stories by any American author.
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Title: Moby Dick by Herman Melville ISBN: 0553213113 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Pierre, Or, the Ambiguities (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville, William C. Spengemann ISBN: 0140434844 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Confidence Man (Literary Classics (Prometheus Books)) by Herman Melville ISBN: 157392038X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Galaxy Books) by Francis Otto Matthiessen ISBN: 019500759X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1968 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North : Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There by Harriet E. Wilson ISBN: 1400031206 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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