Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville

40 pages • first pub 1853 (editions)

fiction classics contemporary short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
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Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist, "who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him." During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville'...

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