Benito Cereno: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 14 original MP3 tracks, 3:53:27 running time and a link to listen.
Benito Cereno, credited to Herman Melville, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville. On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her aloof and disturbed captain, Benito Cereno, the story of how this ship came to be where she is. Dealing with racism, the slave trade, madness, the tension between representation and reality, and featuring at least one unreliable narrator, Melville's novella has both captivated and frustrated critics for decades. (Summary by Nullifidian)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Benito Cereno
- Author credits: Herman Melville
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 14
- Combined MP3 track duration: 3:53:27
Catalogue topics
- adventure
- historical fiction
- sea stories
- slavery
Track guide
- 01 - A Ship — 10:36
- 02 - Aboard San Dominick — 17:42
- 03 - Don Benito's Story — 9:11
- 04 - The Blacks — 17:53
- 05 - Questions — 18:53
- 06 - The Boat Appears — 23:43
- 07 - The Boat Arrives — 16:00
- 08 - In The Cuddy — 27:11
- 09 - Business — 6:29
- 10 - Safe Harbour — 17:55
- 11 - Into The Boat — 11:33
- 12 - Pursuit — 8:45
- 13 - A Deposition — 38:35
- 14 - Conclusion — 9:03
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