Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Herman Melville

96 pages first pub 1853 (editions)

fiction classics contemporary short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
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In this novella, widely considered one of the finest works of American literature, a lawyer hires the "incurably forlorn" Bartleby as a clerk in his small firm. Silent and enigmatic, Bartleby performs well at first. One day, however, when requeste...

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