dougawells 's review for:

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
4.0

On a novella spree, and picked up this lovely little story. My dirty secret is that I've never actually read any of Melville - Moby Dick always feels like too big a lift to start... The writing is tight, even for a book written in the 19th century, that doesn't always, to my ear, translate well to our times.