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The Piazza published by Herman Melville in 1856. The sketch describes Melville's farmhouse, called Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Mass. Supposedly, the other tales in the collection, including Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cereno, were narrated on the piazza of the farmhouse.

This may be the most challenging of Logan’s cases. When former child star and America’s Sweetheart is kidnapped off the set of a Western film, a producer hires Logan to take on the case. However, complications soon arise, and he’s now not only searching for a kidnapper but a crazed murderer as well.

Family-run Casa Maria is the beating heart of beautiful Amatino in Umbria. But now it is under Nazi control, to the fury of matriarch Elena Capaldi. Forced to give board to a hated young German soldier, she reluctantly realises he shares her passion for cooking and can be a real help. But should an enemy soldier ever be trusted?

Discover the beauty and mystery of the natural world with The Piazza by Herman Melville! This collection of short stories and essays explores the relationship between humanity and the natural world, offering poignant insights and observations on the beauty and majesty of the natural world. With its lyrical prose and thought-provoking ideas, The Piazza is a must-listen for anyone interested in nature writing or the works of Herman Melville. So why wait? Start listening to The Piazza today and let Melville's words transport you to the beauty and wonder of the natural world.https://...

The Piazza published by Herman Melville in 1856. The sketch describes Melville's farmhouse, called Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Mass. Supposedly, the other tales in the collection, including "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno," were narrated on the piazza of the farmhouse.

Written as an introductory story to The Piazza Tales, the protagonist of The Piazza idealizes a radiant spot on the mountain that he looks upon from his piazza. Traveling to the spot he realizes it is a house, occupied by the unhappy girl Marianna, who longs to see the lucky individual who lives in the white house she looks upon from her window. The narrator realizes he has been the object of a fantasy like his own, and leaves thinking how all idealism is an illusion.

The Light in the Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson and her beautiful, twenty-six-year-old daughter, Clara, are touring the Tuscan countryside. While sightseeing, Clara meets a good-looking young Italian man, Fabrizio, and quickly embarks on a whirlwind romance with him, despite her mother's stern disapproval.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," and "The Encantadas," his sketches of the Galápagos Islands.

Perché raccontare la strage di piazza Fontana? Roba di un’altra epoca e di un altro mondo e sulla quale già si è detto tanto. Perché è la madre di tutte le stragi e di una stagione di sangue e misteri ed è matrigna del terrorismo rosso. Perché ha segnato ed anche cambiato la storia del nostro Paese. E soprattutto perché i giovani non ne sanno nulla e i meno giovani ne sanno poco. Perché buona parte della sua storia è sconosciuta

Written in seclusion following the intense negative public reaction to the publication of his novel Pierre, The Piazza Tales is Herman Melville's accessible and entertaining collection of short stories and novellas concerning love, labor, and loss. The collection includes his three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction: the short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and the novellas Benito Cereno and The Encantadas.

Quale storia ci racconterebbe la piazza centrale di una città, se potessimo intervistarla? Stefano Massini prova a dare, a suo modo, una risposta alla domanda, e lo fa inventandosi un dialogo con la piazza, presentata come un essere in carne e ossa, fiero di ricostruire fatti e misfatti di cui nei secoli è stata scenario. Ed è proprio dalla piazza che si snoda un racconto fatto di aneddoti, curiosità, personaggi, dove le grandi vicende della Storia si intrecciano con la quotidianità verace, in un rincorrersi di suggestioni e di colori, di eventi epocali e di voltapagina.

Under the Influence is a deep dive into social media, a place haunted by aspirational marketing where it feels like every other person is a social media influencer trying to sell you something, all while posed in perfect houses that never seem to get messy. And behind this airbrushed perfection is money, so much money. Billions and billions of dollars. Journalist and mom Jo Piazza looks at how we got here, what it all means and how the commodification of every single aspect of our lives is driving everyone (but mostly women and mothers) a little insane.

121269 - Inchiesta su Piazza Fontana è il primo podcast investigativo in lingua italiana sulla strage di Piazza Fontana. Il 12 Dicembre 1969 un ordigno nascosto in una borsa esplode nel salone della Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura e uccide 17 persone. La chiamano la madre di tutte le stragi, la bomba che ha cambiato il Paese, ed è la protagonista di ben sette processi che fra mille vicissitudini si sono conclusi con un sterminato elenco di assoluzioni.

Ryan was a pilot, and a damn good one. Accepting an honorable discharge, he began a charter service in Hawaii, where he believed he'd finally found paradise - that is, until government agents approached him. A fission scientist had gone missing while on Maui, and they're sure the Third Reich is involved. Confident of Ryan's abilities and his knowledge of the islands, they ask him to discover what happened.

Verona is the City of Love. But will Suzie find romance there or, like Romeo and Juliet, will it all end in tragedy? When Suzie is hired to accompany spoiled, abrasive Lady Alexandra Tedburn on an all-expenses-paid holiday to Italy, she fears the trip will be a disaster. But she soon discovers there's more to Alex than shopping and tantrums, and she's determined to help her realise her potential - against Alex’s authoritarian father's wishes.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands.

In einer Münchner Wohnanlage, wo die Mehrheit der Bewohner ausländische Wurzeln hat, entfaltet sich ein Mikrokosmos der Kulturen. Ein Schriftsteller, der neu in die Gegend gezogen ist, beobachtet die Piazza an der Bo und beschließt, die Geschichten seiner Nachbarn aus fast 20 Nationen zu erkunden. Von marokkanischen Hijabs bis zum chinesischen Händlern, von indischem Curry bis zu italienischer Pasta – diese Mischung zeigt, wie Integration vor sich geht.

Sexy, platinum-blonde movie siren Gertrude Hurd had it all - fame, men, and riches. But now she's dead. A fallen angel whose broken body and tarnished halo lie on a hillside behind her beachfront cafe. It's 1931, and private detective Tom Logan is back, once again immersed in a perplexing mystery that has him racing against time to track down a merciless killer.

In una Napoli violenta e criminale sta per tornare a galla un terribile segreto Appena uscito dal carcere di Rebibbia, dopo due anni di reclusione, Nico Guerra è costretto a lasciare Roma. Non è un posto sicuro per riassaporare la libertà, visto che ad aspettarlo ha trovato delle esplicite minacce di morte. Scappato a Napoli, Nico chiama Barbara Giuliani, una vecchia amica con la quale aveva avuto un'avventura ai tempi del liceo.

With disparate settings such as a Massachusetts farmhouse and the strange volcanic clime of the Enchanted Isles, this six-story anthology features some of Herman Melville’s most exceptional works. Included here is “Bartleby,” the dark tale of a Wall Street clerk who possesses a confounding and disarmingly passive insubordination; and “Benito Cereno,” in which the captain of a whaler boards a tattered Spanish slave ship in South America only to be drawn into an intricately plotted mutiny.