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Herman Melville is an American author who was born in 1819 and died in 1891
. This SparkNotes guide offers treatments of three of his shorter works from the 1850s: the 1853 short story “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” the 1854 novella “The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles,” and the 1855 novella “Benito Cereno.” SparkNotes also offers separate, more complete study guides for “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Benito Cereno.”Read the free full text, full summaries of “Bartleby the Scrivener,” “The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles,” and “Benito Cereno” and explanations of important quotes from Mellville's Stories.
