The Piazza Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Piazza Tales write by Herman Melville. This book was released on 1856. The Piazza Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele-" When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.
The Piazza
The Piazza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Piazza write by Herman Melville. This book was released on 2009-04-28. The Piazza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking forward to accost one of the Spanish seamen for the desired information. But he had hardly gone five paces, when with a sort of eagerness Don Benito invited him back, regretting his momentary absence of mind, and professing readiness to gratify him.
The Piazza Tales
The Piazza Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Piazza Tales write by Herman Melville. This book was released on 1856. The Piazza Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cerenno" -- a subversive satire -- of grows out of a true story of mutiny among the enslaved . . .
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years Of Exile
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years Of Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Israel Potter: His Fifty Years Of Exile write by Herman Melville. This book was released on 2012. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years Of Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. When Israel Potter leaves his plough to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where more ill fortune awaits him. Israel is captured by the British Navy and taken to England. Yet, he makes his escape, and this triggers a series of extraordinary events and meetings with remarkable people. Along the way, Israel encounters King George III, who takes a liking to the Yankee rebel and shelters him in Kew Gardens; Benjamin Franklin, who presses Israel into service as a spy; John Paul Jones, who invites Israel to join his crew aboard The Ranger; and Ethan Allen, whom Israel attempts to free from a British prison. (from wikipedia.com)
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales write by Elizabeth Spencer. This book was released on 1996. The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. Collected in this volume are The Light in the Piazza, which is her signature piece, and six other Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.
