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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Author
Herman Melville
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
1 hour 25 minutes
ISBN
9781802561173
Published
15 February 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Herman Melville
  • wall street
  • freedom
  • American Romanticism
  • Romanticism
  • Classic
  • American novel
  • obsession
  • symbolism
  • metaphor

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Description

A Wall Street lawyer hires Bartleby, whose quiet refusal I would prefer not to spreads through the office until work, pity, and will itself begin to fail. Spoken as when a scrivener still asks how far preference can refuse the world.

Author

Herman Melville (1819–1891) wrote the American epic that almost nobody wanted until it was too late. Moby-Dick began as a whale hunt and became scripture, encyclopaedia, sermon, and storm — a novel that thinks in every direction at once. Melville had been to sea as a young man; Typee made him briefly famous for Polynesian adventure, then the public cooled as his books grew stranger and more metaphysical. He died in relative obscurity.

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