Bartleby (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540390523)

"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.

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1540390527
ISBN-13: 9781540390523
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2016
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d