Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall Street

Full text. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world-even those daunted by Moby-Dick-Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?

• | Author: Herman Melville
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 23, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 72 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1546894918
• | ISBN-13: 9781546894919