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Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville

54 pages first pub 1853 (view editions)

fiction classics contemporary short stories mysterious reflective slow-paced
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The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey, to copy legal documents by hand. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlo...

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