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Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
Author(s): Herman Melville (Author)
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date: 11 Nov. 2017
- Language: English
- Print length: 72 pages
- ISBN-10: 1979670927
- ISBN-13: 9781979670920
Book Description
One of the most noted of American short stories. It has been considered a precursor of absurdist literature,. The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand, Nippers and Turkey. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two.
