Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
By Herman Melville
Length1h 36m
About this audiobook
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. 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, refusing 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.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length1 hr 36 mins
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Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
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