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by: Herman Melville
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780486264738
ISBN: 0486264734
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: July 01, 1990
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 36442
Studio: Dover Publications
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Two memorable and stirring works in one volume. 'Bartleby,' (also called 'Bartleby the Scrivener') is a haunting moral allegory set in the business world of 19th-century New York. 'Benito Cereno,' a harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship, is regarded by many as Melville's finest short story.
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Rating:  - quick and entertaining read
Bartleby is a quick entertaining read about the breakdown between employee/employer relationships.
Rating:  - Follow your leader. I would prefer not to
Benito Cereno is a brilliant story of deception. It makes the reader relentlessly guessing what is really going on and what happened to the inmates of the shipwreck 'San Dominick'.
Unfortunately, it is a racist tale. Herman Melville accepts without discussion the 19th century belief in the superiority of the white man.
The black inmates are characterized as 'the docile arising from the unaspiring contentment of a limited mind ... undisputable inferiors.'
They are crushed by the ... Read More
Rating: - Bartleby , the Underground Man, The Overcoat
This review is of one of the long stories, or novellas that constitute this volume, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' , and not of ' Benito Cereno'. 'Bartleby'is one of the great pieces of American and of Existensial Literature. It's hero, ' Who prefers not to' in some way compares with those other lonely nineteenth century city-dweller isolatos, Dostoevsky's Underground Man, and Gogol's Akakay Akakayevitch. He too has a cousin in much of Kafka's literature perhaps most especially in 'The Metamorphosis'. ... Read More
Rating:  - What a waste
Congratulations Herman Melville - you have a good vocabulary and know how to describe a setting.
Benito Cereno was a waste of my life. Yes, the story is interesting and political and provocative but it could have easily been condensed by 50 pages. The build up is completely unnecessary. if you are desparate to read this book, read only the first 15 and last 15 pages
Rating: - Benito Cereno
Herman Melville's Benito Cereno is a story about a Spanish slave ship taken captive, and the unfortunate American whaling ship that discovers them. The American Captain, Amasa Delano, and his crew cross paths with the Spanish slave ship, the San Dominick in a bay off the coast of the island of Santa Maria. Captain Delano is immediately astonished at the disrepair of the San Dominick, and especially at the poor health and mental condition of her captain, Benito Cereno. Captain Delano's emotional reactions ... Read More
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