Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
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Benito Cereno

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: George Keller

Unabridged: 3 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

When an American sea captain sees a Spanish slave ship in distress, he reaches out with an offer to help. Once on board, however, the odd behavior of the captain, crew, and slaves leave him with an uneasy feeling that something is not as it seems. Melville based the plot of this novella on real events that occurred off the coast of Chile in 1799. Though it is not Melville’s best-known work, it is favored among scholars as one of his most complex.

About Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby Dick and novella Billy Budd, the latter which was published posthumously. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early twentieth century that his work won recognition, most notably Moby Dick, which was hailed as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

melville! in a melville house edition! crazy, right? this is a nice taut little thrill-ride of a book. okay, it's got a lot of description of boat-architecture, so it isn't a complete thriller - melville does tend to go overboard (GET IT??) with the descriptions sometimes, but regardless, it is more e......more

Goodreads review by Bill

This novella—in which Amasa Delano, an American captain, visits a mysterious Spanish slave-ship captained by Benito Cereno--is my favorite of Melville’s short works. It is not only as profound as Bartleby and Budd but also more pleasing. A first-rate adventure, it features an innocent in peril, the......more

«Ραμάν αλλήθωρε, τρελέ, που λύνεις μάγια, κατάφερε το σταυρωτό του νότου αστέρι σωρός να πέσει να σκορπίσει στα σπιράγια, και πες του κάτω από ένα δέντρο να με φέρει. Ο Τοτ, του λείπει το ένα χέρι μα όλο γνέθει, τούτο το απίθανο σινάφι να βρακώσει. Εσθήρ, ποια βιβλική σκορπάς περνώντας μέθη; Ρούθ, δε μιλάς......more