Bartleby the Scrivener

Name: Bartleby the Scrivener
Author: Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

Short story of a Wall Street copyist who responds to all requests with passive resistance

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville wrote one of the greatest novels in the English language with Moby-Dick, a philosophical epic about obsession and the sea. Largely unappreciated in his lifetime, he was rediscovered in the twentieth century as a towering figure of American literature.

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