# The Piazza Tales

Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15859

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Piazza+Tales+Melville&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-piazza-tales-15859/chapters/20/index.md)