The Piazza Tales - Hardcover

Melville, Herman

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ISBN 10: 0891908773 ISBN 13: 9780891908777

Publisher: Amereon Ltd, 1993

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The literary styles and philosophic concerns of the nineteenth-century American writer are displayed in six short stories.

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From the Back Cover:

Edith Maud Eaton was born in 1865 to a Chinese mother and an English father. In an era of violent anti-Chinese sentiment and legally sanctioned discriminatory policies, she chose to assert her Chinese identity and battle in print for the voiceless Chinese underclass. As Sui Sin Far, she wrote for both adults and children, urging the necessity for a fully humanity, for an active moral commitment to empathic understanding. She published widely in many of the day's popular magazines. Mrs. Spring Fragrance, her only book, brings together thirty-seven of her stories. The literary ancestor to such contemporary storytellers as Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan, Sui Sin Far was the first person of Chinese descent in the United States to write and publish work about Chinese-American life.

About the Author:

Herman Melville[a] (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. Herman Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.

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