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Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman. Melville (1990, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100486264734
ISBN-139780486264738
eBay Product ID (ePID)795190
Product Key Features
Book TitleBartleby and Benito Cereno
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorHerman. Melville
Book SeriesDover Thrift Editions: Short Stories Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight3.2 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-037098
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromNinth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.3
SynopsisTwo classics in one volume: "Bartleby," a disturbing moral allegory set in 19th-century New York, and "Benito Cereno," a gripping sea adventure that probes the nature of man's depravity., Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these -- "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" -- first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales. "Bartleby" (also known as "Bartleby the Scrivener") is an intriguing moral allegory set in the business world of mid-19th-century New York. A strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, Bartleby forces his employer to come to grips with the most basic questions of human responsibility, and haunts the latter's conscience, even after Bartleby's dismissal. "Benito Cereno," considered one of Melville's best short stories, deals with a bloody slave revolt on a Spanish vessel. A splendid parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, the carefully developed and mysteriously guarded plot builds to a dramatic climax while revealing the horror and depravity of which man is capable. Reprinted here from standard texts in a finely made, yet inexpensive new edition, these stories offer the general reader and students of Melville and American literature sterling examples of a literary giant at his story-telling best.
LC Classification NumberPS2384.B26 1990
