Benito Cereno

By Melville, Herman

Book Id: WPLBN0002950965
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File Size: 112.06 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Benito Cereno
Author:	Melville, Herman
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Adventure, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Benito Cereno
Historic Publication Date:	1856
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Melville, B. H. (1856). Benito Cereno. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her aloof and disturbed captain, Benito Cereno, the story of how this ship came to be where she is. Dealing with racism, the slave trade, madness, the tension between representation and reality, and featuring at least one unreliable narrator, Melville's novella has both captivated and frustrated critics for decades. (Summary by Nullifidian)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Adventure, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sea stories