# Piazza Tales

An audiobook by Herman Melville, read by LibriVox volunteers (9 h 45 min, English).

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 (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.)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)

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## Chapters

1. Chapter 1 - The Piazza (41:25): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_01_melville_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter 2A - Bartleby Part 1 (57:51): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_02_melville_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter 2B - Bartleby Part 2 (45:02): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_03_melville_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter 3A - Benito Cereno Part 1 (1:01:48): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_04_melville_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter 3B - Benito Cereno Part 2 (1:05:25): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_05_melville_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter 3C - Benito Cereno Part 3 (53:13): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_06_melville_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter 3D - Benito Cereno Part 4 (44:06): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_07_melville_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter 4 - The Lightning-Rod Man (19:17): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_08_melville_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter 5-A - The Encantadas - Sketch First. The Isles at Large. (14:37): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_09_melville_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter 5-B - The Encantadas - Sketch Second. Two Sides to a Tortoise (10:46): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_10_melville_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter 5-C - The Encantadas - Sketch Third. Rock Rodondo (13:31): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_11_melville_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter 5-D - The Encantadas - Sketch Fourth. A Pisgah View from the Rock. (18:15): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_12_melville_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter 5-E - The Encantadas - Sketch Fifth. The Frigate, and the Flyaway. (4:20): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_13_melville_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter 5-F - The Encantadas - Sketch Sixth. Barrington Isle and the Buccaneers. (8:15): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_14_melville_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter 5-G - The Encantadas - Sketch Seventh. Charles's Isle and the Dog-King. (13:36): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_15_melville_64kb.mp3
16. Chapter 5-H - The Encantadas - Sketch Eighth. Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow. (37:04): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_16_melville_64kb.mp3
17. Chapter 5-I - The Encantadas - Sketch Ninth. Hood's Isle and the Hermit Oberlus. (25:13): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_17_melville_64kb.mp3
18. Chapter 5-J - The Encantadas - Sketch Tenth. Runaways, Castaways, Solitaries, Grave-stones, etc. (10:24): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_18_melville_64kb.mp3
19. Chapter 6 - The Bell-Tower (41:20): https://archive.org/download/piazza_tales_2204_librivox/piazzatales_19_melville_64kb.mp3