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Digestible Classics dives into the best books that are short enough for a busy schedule. Everyone is welcome, no matter your experience with classic literature. If you're new to it, this is a great place to start. This month we'll be reading The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville.
The Piazza Tales are often published together with other short stories. For the purposes of this book club, we will only be discussing the following stories:
- The Piazza
- Bartleby, the Scrivener
- Benito Cereno
- The Lightning-Rod Man
- The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
- The Bell-Tower
Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of "Billy Budd, Sailor;" the controlled rage of "Benito Cereno;" and the tantalizing enigma of "Bartleby, the Scrivener;" Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville's.
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