Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave 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.
After surveying scholarship and criticism on the tales up to the 1980s, Sealts observed that, of the six Piazza Tales, "Benito Cereno" and "The Encantadas" have attracted the most attention from the beginning of Melville studies, while "Bartleby" and "The Piazza" increasingly captured scholarly attention from the 1920s onward. [60]
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth and final novel by American writer Herman Melville.The work was published on the exact day of the novel's setting.
"Benito Cereno" October–December 1855 Putnam's Monthly Magazine: Collected in The Piazza Tales "Jimmy Rose" November 1855 Harper's New Monthly Magazine: Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches "The 'Gees" March 1856 Harper's New Monthly Magazine: Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches "I and My Chimney" March 1856
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891.. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's
Jamie Groover [1] is an American comic book writer who uses the pen name Benito Cereno. He is best known as the writer and co-creator of 2004's Tales from the Bully Pulpit and Hector Plasm . His work first appeared as strips in early issues of Robert Kirkman 's comic book Invincible .
Lowell's idea for The Old Glory began with his attempt to adapt Herman Melville's novella Benito Cereno into an opera for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In 1960, with the assistance of the poet William Meredith , Lowell received a grant from the Ford Foundation to write the libretto . [ 11 ]
Herman Melville, early in his novella “Benito Cereno”, provides much description of the strange behavior and appearance of another ship, the San Dominick.As the captain and some crew of another ship get closer to it, Melville writes this paragraph: