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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.

This version of Benito Cereno presents the novel in a readable and affordable format with light and supportive annotations and supporting editorial content to help you connect with the central themes of the book.

"Benito Cereno," a story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, represents Herman Melville's most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery. Narrating the story of a slave revolt using materials drawn... Read Full Overview

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Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855... Read Full Overview

Herman Melville's controversial 1855 novella Benito Cereno retains its power to move the reader over a century and a half after its publication. The story - which ends with a haunting twist - centers on a slave rebellion aboard a Spanish merchant ship in 1799 and because... Read Full Overview

"What has cast such a shadow upon you?"
"The Negro."

En 1799, el capit n norteamericano Amasa Delano ancl en la bah a de una isla desierta del litoral chileno. A la ma ana siguiente apareci en el lugar un misterioso nav o, el Santo Domingo. Las maniobras de ste hicieron sopechar al norteamericano que se trataba de un barco en... Read Full Overview

"Benito Cereno" from Herman Melville. American novelist, essayist, and poet (1819-1891).

Corr a el a o 1799, cuando el capit n Amasa Delano, de Duxbury (Massachusetts), al mando de un gran velero mercante, ancl con un valioso cargamento en la ensenada de Santa Mar a, una isla peque a, desierta y deshabitada.

En 1799, pour faire le plein d'eau, le navire du capitaine Amaso Delano, le D lices du c libataire, mouille dans une petite le au sud du Chili . Arrive sur le m me mouillage le San Dominick, un n grier espagnol en piteux tat, command par le jeune Benito Cereno, pas plus vaillant... Read Full Overview

"The Piazza Tales"Benito CerenoHerman MelvilleBenito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville. It was first serialized in Putnam's Monthly in 1855 and later included a slightly revised version in his collection The Piazza Tales (1856).The story follows a sea captain, Amasa Delano,... Read Full Overview