Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542603625 ISBN 13: 9781542603621

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

"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. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who---after an initial bout of hard work---refuses to make copy and 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 perishes.

Numerous essays have been published on what, according to scholar Robert Milder, "is unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction" in the Melville canon.

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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1542603625
• ISBN 13: 9781542603621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60