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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.”