Melville, Herman (1819 - 1891) - Herman Melville (Story Date 1856)
HERMAN MELVILLE (STORY DATE 1856)
SOURCE: Melville, Herman. "The Bell Tower." In The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces: 1839–1860, by Herman Melville, pp. 174-87. Evanston and Chicago, Ill.: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1987.
The following excerpt comprises the conclusion of the short story "The Bell Tower," first published in The Piazza Tales in 1856.
It was thought that on the day preceding the fatality, his visitors having left him, Bannadonna had unpacked the belfry image, adjusted it, and placed it in the retreat provided,—a sort of sentry-box in one corner of the belfry; in short, throughout the night, and for some part of the ensuing morning, he had been engaged in arranging every thing connected with the domino: the issuing from the sentry-box each sixty minutes; sliding along a grooved way, like a railway; advancing to the clock-bell, with uplifted...
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