HERMAN MELVILLE

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In this collection readers will find three of Herman Melville's most popular shorter works, "Benito Cereno", "Bartleby: The Scrivener", and "The Encantadas". Considered to be one of Melville's best short stories, "Benito Cereno" is a tale of the revolt aboard a Spanish ship. "Bartleby: The Scrivener" is a moral allegory set on Wall Street in New...

This early, autobiographical adventure novel (1847) is a sequel to TYPEE, which preceded it by a year. Popular in its day, OMOO is a picaresque adventure that is suffused with Melville's disgust with the white missionaries who tried to impose their values on a culture they had no understanding of, and on colonialism in the South Seas in general....