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Synopsis
When a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, it is Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only "I would prefer not to." So begins the story of Bartleby—passive to the point of absurdity yet paradoxically extremely disruptive—which rapidly turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy. Accompanying Bartleby, Benito Cereno was first serialized in 1855, and centers around a slave rebellion on board a Spanish merchant ship in 1799.
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About the Author
Most famous for his works Billy Budd and Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1818–1891) is a key figure in 19th-century American literature.
Review
"In our own time of terror and torture, Benito Cereno has emerged as the most salient of Melville's works: a tale of desperate men in the grip of a vengeful fury that those whom they hate cannot begin to understand." —Andrew Delbanco, author, Melville
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- PublisherHesperus Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1843911566
- ISBN 13 9781843911562
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages184
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