《广场故事》是美国作家赫尔曼·梅尔维尔创作的六个短篇故事合集，于1856年5月由Dix & Edwards在美国出版，同年6月在英国出版。除了新写的标题故事《广场》外，所有故事均曾在1853年至1855年间的《普特南月刊》上发表。该合集包括梅尔维尔在短篇小说领域被广泛认为的三部重要作品：《巴特比，抄写员》、《贝尼托·塞雷诺》和《加拉帕戈斯群岛的魅力》。《比利·巴德》是他最伟大的短篇小说之一，但生前未曾出版。梅尔维尔最初打算将这本书命名为《贝尼托·塞雷诺与其他素描》，但在写完引言故事后，最终确定了《广场故事》这个标题。该书获得了积极的评价，尤其是《加拉帕戈斯群岛的魅力》受到了高度赞扬，但销量并不理想，可能是因为短篇小说对书籍买家的吸引力不大。从20世纪末梅尔维尔被重新发现以来，《巴特比》、《贝尼托·塞雷诺》和《加拉帕戈斯群岛的魅力》成为最受批评关注的短篇作品，而《广场》则稍显逊色。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. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.)Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story. The book received largely favorable reviews, with reviewers especially praising"The Encantadas" but did not sell well enough to get Melville out of his financial straits, probably because short fiction for magazines had little appeal to bookbuyers. From after Melville's rediscovery to the end of the twentieth century, the short works that attracted the most critical attention were"Bartleby,""Benito Cereno" and"The Encantadas," with"The Piazza" a little behind those.