This volume, first published in 1856, collects three of Melville's most important pieces of prose fiction: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles'. Also included in this volume are 'The Lightning-Rod Man', 'The Bell Tower' and a story written especially fo...

This volume, first published in 1856, collects three of Melville's most important pieces of prose fiction: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles'. Also included in this volume are 'The Lightning-Rod Man', 'The Bell Tower' and a story written especially for the collection, 'The Piazza'.