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Benito Cereno : Large Print

Benito Cereno : Large Print( )
Author: Melville, Herman
ISBN:978-1-7247-8465-0
Publication Date:Aug 2018
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $7.99
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Benito CerenoHerman MelvilleWhen approached at sea by the slaver San Dominick, Captain Amasa Delano of the Bachelor's Delight is struck by the Spanish ship's dilapidated condition, her peculiar captain-Benito Cereno-and the strange atmosphere among the white crew and black slaves. While Delano accepts Cereno's explanation of trying times aboard the Dominick, including the death of the slave master, Delano's doubt persists, and the answers to his questions come in startling...
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Pages:102
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.5 x 11 x 0.23 Inches
Book Weight:0.72 Pounds
Author Biography
Melville, Herman (Author)
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction.

Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged.

By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives,



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