Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street" by Herman Melville is a short story first published in 1853. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new copying clerk named Bartleby, who initially works diligently but soon begins refusing all tasks with the phrase "I would prefer not to." As Bartleby's passive resistance intensifies, the baffled narrator struggles to understand his enigmatic employee. This darkly compelling tale explores isolation, compassion, and the mystery of
human behavior in an increasingly impersonal world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 |
|---|---|
| Title | Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener |
| Credits | Steve J. Nelson and Clara T. Nelson |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Young men -- Fiction |
| Subject | Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Copyists -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 11231 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-11231-2 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 5, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 9216 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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