Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville

75 pages first pub 1853 (editions)

fiction classics contemporary short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
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The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand, Nippers and Turkey. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlor...

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