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The Bell Tower is a chamber opera in one act by Ernst Krenek, his Op. 153.The English libretto by the composer was inspired by the short story by Herman Melville (collected in The Piazza Tales), the events only mysteriously hinted at in the story becoming a point of departure for the explicit dramatic action of Krenek's piece. [1]
"The Bell-Tower" appeared in 1855 in no. 32 (August). [16] "Benito Cereno" appeared in three installments in 1855, in no. 34 (October), no. 35 (November), and no. 36 (December). [17] Melville's submissions for the magazine were well received. Only once was a submission rejected, "The Two Temples", which remained unpublished during Melville's life.
A Melville revival that began in the 1920s led to the reprinting of many of his works, which had gone out of print in the United States. Raymond Weaver, Melville's first biographer, edited a 16-volume edition for the London publisher Constable, which included the first publication of Billy Budd. [3]
After Melville sold the homestead to Matthew Whiting in 1881 to join his son in Washington, D.C., the handsome farmhouse and property changed ownership five more times until it was acquired in 1909 by the Bell Telephone Memorial Association, [9] which at the time was collecting funds to build a major memorial to both Alexander Graham and to the ...
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852.The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanly, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.
Timoleon (full title: Timoleon and Other Ventures in Minor Verse) is a collection of forty-two poems by American writer Herman Melville.It was privately published in May 1891, four months before the author's death. [1]
Melville, who took time off from writing Moby-Dick to compose the review, expressed gratitude to Hawthorne for "dropping germinous seeds in my soul." The review drew attention to his "great power of blackness" that "derives its force from its appeals to that Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always ...
The first significant visit Melville made to his uncle was a brief one in August 1831. [5] After his father died in January 1832, [6] Melville's mother took the family to Pittsfield to escape an outbreak of cholera in July 1832. It is from the time of this brief stay that Melville's interest in the Berkshires developed. [7]