Bartleby, The Scrivener by Melville, Herman

Bartleby, The Scrivener (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481101455)

Author: Herman Melville
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Format: Paperback
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Bartleby, The Scrivener by Melville, Herman

Bartleby, The Scrivener

$6.95
Bartleby, The Scrivener by Melville, Herman

Bartleby, The Scrivener

$6.95
Format: Paperback
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Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist, "who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him." During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville's frustration with his own situation as a writer, and the story itself is "about a writer who forsakes conventional modes because of an irresistible preoccupation with the most baffling philosophical questions." Bartleby can also be seen to represent Melville's relation to his commercial, democratic society.

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1481101455
ISBN-13: 9781481101455
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2012
Pages: 54
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d
By Herman Melville
By Herman Melville
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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.

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