Benito Cereno - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480255319 ISBN 13: 9781480255319

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Benito Cereno is a story by Herman Melville that features some of the author’s most action packed storytelling presented in this new edition of the great classic.

About this title

About the Author:

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) was born in New York. Family hardships forced him to leave school for various occupations, including shipping as a cabin boy to Liverpool in 1839--a voyage that sparked his love for the sea. A shrewd social critic and philosopher in his fiction, he is considered an outstanding writer of the sea and a great stylist who mastered both realistic narrative and a rich, rhythmical prose.

Review:

''In our own time of terror and torture, Benito Cereno has emerged as the most salient of Melville's works: a tale of desperate men in the grip of a vengeful fury that those whom they hate cannot begin to understand.'' --Andrew Delbanco, author, Melville: His World and Work

''The noblest short story in American literature.'' --Edward J. O'Brien, American author and short-story anthologist

''Superficially, this is a story of slavery and mutiny on the high seas, but beneath the adventure-charged plot lies Melville's examination of that subject which so fascinated him: the confrontation of extreme forces of good and evil in the universe.'' --Masterpieces of World Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1480255319
• ISBN 13: 9781480255319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86