Herman Melville
Benito Cerenoè un romanzo breve scritto da Herman Melville e originariamente pubblicato nel 1855.
Amasa Delano è un capitano americano che si è rifugiato con la sua nave su un'isola al largo delle coste del Cile. Vi arriva una nave di schiavi spagnola il cui capitano è il malaticcioBenito Cerenoe con un equipaggio di schiavi neri e marinai spagnoli.
La nave, praticamente in rovina, appare lì di sorpresa.Quale segreto nasconde?Chi è
Best known for producing one of the masterworks of American literature, the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also branched out into many other genres of writing over the course of his career. The novella Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile was initially published in serial form in a magazine. It offers a fictionalized account of an American-born man whose remarkable life included time spent as a soldier, sailor, prisoner, spy,
...Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee, both fictional yet highly autobiographical. The narrator ships on a whaling vessel to Tahiti, where the crew mutinies and are imprisoned. The narrative is full of his observations of the Tahitian customs and way of life. Omoo is based on Melville's experiences in the Society Islands.
