Bartleby, the Scrivener

Name: Bartleby, the Scrivener
Author: Herman Melville

1 hr 2 minAbout an hourclassicliterarymelancholy

A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet copyist whose gentle refusal — “I would prefer not to” — slowly unravels everything around him.

14,348 words · 4 chapters

About the author

Herman Melville — American novelist and poet, author of Moby-Dick.

Public-domain text from Project Gutenberg.

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