Benito Cereno (Annotated Edition) - Herman Melville • BookLikes (ISBN:B00AZBHI0O)

Benito Cereno (Annotated Edition)

by: Herman Melville (author)

“Benito Cereno” is one of the best-known novellas by American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891). First published in 1856, it is about a sea captain who has to face a slave rebellion on his ship.This ebook also contains a biographic profile of Melville and a complete bibliography of his novels... show more

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Format: kindle

ASIN: B00AZBHI0O

Pages no: 95

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Academic, School, Literature, Read For School, American, Historical Fiction, Mystery, 19th Century, Short Stories

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Lisa (Harmony) rated it

11 years ago

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I've read both Moby Dick and Billy Budd, but of the Melville works I've read, it's this novella I find most impressive. There's none of the windy digressions in Moby Dick or the heavy-handed allegory of Billy Budd or The Confidence-man here. This is as close as I've found in Melville to taut, subtle...

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Syahira's Literary Obsession rated it

12 years ago

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"Benito Cereno" were never meant to be read only once. However, it took me some multiple reads into this short novel to make sense of the plot as the book need to be absorbed more than its meant to be read. Based on a true story, "Benito Cereno" was narrated by a very gullible unreliable narrator ab...

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