Bartleby And Benito Cereno

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547776789

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Benito Cereno & Bartleby by Herman Melville Pdf

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" – An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy nicknamed Ginger Nut completes the staff. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work, but one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to." "Benito Cereno" is a tale about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. In 1799 off the coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano of the American sealer and merchant ship Bachelor's Delight visits the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship apparently in distress. After learning from its captain Benito Cereno that a storm has taken many crewmembers and provisions, Delano offers to help out. He notices that Cereno acts awkwardly passive for a captain and the slaves display remarkably inappropriate behavior, and though this piques his suspicion he ultimately decides he is being paranoid. When he leaves the San Dominick and captain Cereno jumps after him, he finally discovers that the slaves have taken command of the ship, and forced the surviving crew to act as usual.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Sea stories, American
ISBN : OCLC:687664324

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Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110554

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Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

DIVTwo classics in one volume: "Bartleby," a disturbing moral allegory set in 19th-century New York, and "Benito Cereno," a gripping sea adventure that probes the nature of man's depravity. /div

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 1199 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Piazza Tales (廣場故事) by Herman Melville Pdf

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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066392376

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Bartleby & Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" – An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy nicknamed Ginger Nut completes the staff. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work, but one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to."_x000D_ "Benito Cereno" is a tale about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. In 1799 off the coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano of the American sealer and merchant ship Bachelor's Delight visits the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship apparently in distress. After learning from its captain Benito Cereno that a storm has taken many crewmembers and provisions, Delano offers to help out. He notices that Cereno acts awkwardly passive for a captain and the slaves display remarkably inappropriate behavior, and though this piques his suspicion he ultimately decides he is being paranoid. When he leaves the San Dominick and captain Cereno jumps after him, he finally discovers that the slaves have taken command of the ship, and forced the surviving crew to act as usual.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782277460

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I Would Prefer Not To by Herman Melville Pdf

A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The Lightning-Rod Man" A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Giunti
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9788809995543

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Bartleby - Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451530810

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Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015051891045

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Melville's Short Novels by Herman Melville Pdf

This Norton Critical Edition presents three of Melville's most important short novels -- Bartleby, The Scrivener; Benito Cereno; and Billy Budd. The texts are accompanied by ample explanatory annotation. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" offers selections from works that influenced Melville's writing of these three short novles, including, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Transcendentalist" and Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels. Johannes Dietrich Bergmann, H. Bruce Franklin, and Robert M. Cover provide overviews of Melville's probable sources. An unusually rich "Criticism" section includes twenty-eight wide-ranging pieces that often contradict one another and that are sure to promote classroom discussion. Book jacket.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9788809753242

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Bartleby - Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.

Author : Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810139756

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Handsomely Done by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Pdf

Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville’s works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity. The volume explores the curious fact that the works of this most linguistically complex and seemingly most “untranslatable” of authors have yielded such compelling translations and adaptations as well as the related tendency of Melville’s writing to flash into relevance at every new historical-political conjuncture. The volume thus engages not only Melville reception across media (Jorge Luis Borges, John Huston, Jean-Luc Godard, Led Zeppelin, Claire Denis) but also the Melvillean resonances and echoes of various political events and movements, such as the Attica uprising, the Red Army Faction, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. This consideration of Melville’s afterlife opens onto theorizations of intermediality, un/translatability, and material intensity even as it also continually faces the most concrete and pressing questions of history and politics.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547719991

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Benito Cereno & Bartleby by Herman Melville Pdf

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" – An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy nicknamed Ginger Nut completes the staff. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work, but one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to." "Benito Cereno" is a tale about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. In 1799 off the coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano of the American sealer and merchant ship Bachelor's Delight visits the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship apparently in distress. After learning from its captain Benito Cereno that a storm has taken many crewmembers and provisions, Delano offers to help out. He notices that Cereno acts awkwardly passive for a captain and the slaves display remarkably inappropriate behavior, and though this piques his suspicion he ultimately decides he is being paranoid. When he leaves the San Dominick and captain Cereno jumps after him, he finally discovers that the slaves have taken command of the ship, and forced the surviving crew to act as usual.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8809020839

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Bartleby. Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307831712

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Melville by Andrew Delbanco Pdf

If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville’s life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781541547742

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Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville Pdf

Considered one of the greatest American writers, Herman Melville leaves the sea behind in this short story collection to write about Wall Street offices, the Galapagos Islands, a sinister architect, apathy, capitalism, and humanity's precarious nature. In "Bartleby, the Scrivener," a Manhattan lawyer struggles with a clerk who "prefers not" to do work or leave the office building. In "Benito Cereno," a captain stumbles upon a Spanish slave ship off the coast of Chile, whose captain has been overthrown in a revolt. The short story collection also includes "The Piazza," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Encantadas," and the "Bell-Tower." This is an unabridged version of the 1856 edition.