Description: Bartleby, the Scrivener by Melville, Herman, ISBN 1720999929, ISBN-13 9781720999928, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy or do 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 critical essays have been published on the story, which scholar Robert Milder describes as "unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction" in the Melville canon
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Book Title: Bartleby, the Scrivener
Number of Pages: 68 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.2 in
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: General
Genre: Literary Collections
Item Weight: 5.5 Oz
Author: Herman. Melville
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
