| Benito Cereno Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1975738055 ISBN-13: 9781975738051 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 6" W x 9" (0.26 lbs) 78 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slavery ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855. The tale, slightly revised, was included in his short story collection The Piazza Tales that appeared in May 1856. According to scholar Merton M. Sealts, Jr., the story is 'an oblique comment on those prevailing attitudes toward blacks and slavery in the United States that would ultimately precipitate civil war between North and South. |