Bartleby, the Scrivener |
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Author:
| Melville, Herman |
Foreword by:
| McGrath, Patrick |
Series title: | Hesperus Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-84391-156-2 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
Publisher: | Hesperus Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $13.95 |
Book Description:
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When a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, it is Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only "I would prefer not to." So begins the story of Bartleby--passive to the point of absurdity yet paradoxically extremely disruptive--which rapidly turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy. Accompanying
Bartleby,
Benito...
More DescriptionWhen a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, it is Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only "I would prefer not to." So begins the story of Bartleby--passive to the point of absurdity yet paradoxically extremely disruptive--which rapidly turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy. Accompanying Bartleby, Benito Cereno was first serialized in 1855, and centers around a slave rebellion on board a Spanish merchant ship in 1799.