Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Herman Melville · 1853
A short story by Herman Melville, first published in 1853, in which an elderly Wall Street lawyer recounts his puzzling experiences with Bartleby, a strangely withdrawn law copyist who joins the clerks in the lawyer's chambers.
Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.
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