The Piazza Tales - Herman Melville

This is a handful of short stories, including the famous Bartleby and the runner up Benito Cereno. Those two are actually the best ones. A pair of the others (The Piazza, The Bell Tower) are in excess symbolic, I haven't liked them. In "The Encantadas" we learn a series of stories or legends about those islands. There's one last "The Lightning-Rod Man" short and of no special interest.