THE ATHENAEUMBartleby, the ScrivenerHerman Melville
Strange
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA Wall Street lawyer hires a pale, neat, quiet copyist who, asked one day to check a document, replies: “I would prefer not to.” After that he prefers not to do anything else. Melville’s story is funny, then strange, then very sad.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About an hour
- Where to find it
- The Evening Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #11231. In the public domain in the United States.