The Piazza Tales


Leído por John Greenman

(3.8 stars; 8 reviews)

A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.) One should note that the era's prevalent racism occasionally surfaces, as in describing blacks as "indisputable inferiors", to be found in "Benito Cereno". (Summary by John Greenman) (9 hr 45 min)

Capítulos

Chapter 1 - The Piazza 41:25 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 2A - Bartleby Part 1 57:51 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 2B - Bartleby Part 2 45:02 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 3A - Benito Cereno Part 1 1:01:48 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 3B - Benito Cereno Part 2 1:05:25 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 3C - Benito Cereno Part 3 53:13 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 3D - Benito Cereno Part 4 44:06 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 4 - The Lightning-Rod Man 19:17 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-A - The Encantadas - Sketch First. The Isles at Large. 14:37 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-B - The Encantadas - Sketch Second. Two Sides to a Tortoise 10:46 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-C - The Encantadas - Sketch Third. Rock Rodondo 13:31 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-D - The Encantadas - Sketch Fourth. A Pisgah View from the Rock. 18:15 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-E - The Encantadas - Sketch Fifth. The Frigate, and the Flyaway. 4:20 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-F - The Encantadas - Sketch Sixth. Barrington Isle and the Buccaneers. 8:15 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-G - The Encantadas - Sketch Seventh. Charles's Isle and the Dog-King. 13:36 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-H - The Encantadas - Sketch Eighth. Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow. 37:04 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-I - The Encantadas - Sketch Ninth. Hood's Isle and the Hermit Oberlus. 25:13 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 5-J - The Encantadas - Sketch Tenth. Runaways, Castaways, Solitaries, G… 10:24 Leído por John Greenman
Chapter 6 - The Bell-Tower 41:20 Leído por John Greenman

Reseñas

An excellent collection of stories


(5 stars)

A great collection of short stories by Melville, but a side of the author I wasn't aware of. Mr John Greenman does a great job of story telling and is one of my favorite readers at LibriVox. I highly recommend it.