From the rear cover
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.
"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 reveals the horror and depravity of which man is capable.
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- Title Bartleby and Benito Cereno
- Author Herman Melville
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-07
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780486264738 / 0486264734
- Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.3 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 0.76 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Sea stories, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009280237
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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