Benito Cereno

Author(s): Herman Melville; Wyn Kelley (Editor)

Fiction

One of Herman Melville's best-known novels is Benito Cereno, published in 1855, and based on the real story of Spaniard Benito Cerre o, whose ship, the Tryal, seized in 1804 the slaves that he was taking by Pacific waters bound for Lima, where I expected to sell them.

General Information

  • : 9780312452421
  • : Bedford/Saint Martin's
  • : Bedford/Saint Martin's
  • : 0.185973
  • : 19 December 2006
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Herman Melville; Wyn Kelley (Editor)
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813.3
  • : 160