Bartleby, the Scrivener Illustrated

By: Melville, Herman

"""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 copies or do any other task required of him, with the words ""I would prefer not to.""Numerous critical essays have been published about the story, which scholar Robert Milder describes as ""unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction"" in the Melville canon."Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world-even those daunted by Moby-Dick-Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R6TMYQJ
• ISBN13: 9798585707285
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"