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Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Melville, Herman

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1542930081
ISBN13: 9781542930086
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 4 2017
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who-after an initial bout of hard work-refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with the words I would prefer not to. The lawyer cannot bring himself to remove Bartleby from his premises, and decides instead to move his office, but the new proprietor removes Bartleby to prison, where he perishes. Numerous essays have been published on what, according to scholar Robert Milder, is unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction in the Melville canon.

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