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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Herman Melville
2004
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"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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Keywords
- Copyists -- Fiction
- GITenberg
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- PS
- Psychological fiction
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
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