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Genres: General Fiction
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Bartleby, The Scrivener

Herman Melville

I am a rather elderly man.

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This short story by Herman Melville, arguably one of the greatest authors the United States has ever produced, follows the downward trajectory of Bartleby, a strange and pale young clerk in a nineteenth-century New York law firm. Narrated by Bartleby's erstwhile employer, it records his gradual with...more...

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Another of Melville's thought provoking short stories.

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Great first sentence: What a great first sentence..

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American half-vast Marxist: Bartleby puts the cog in the machine, but as the social atom that he is, cannot link to any other person, philosophy or movement. Melville is brilliant in anticipating our tendency..

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