Bartelby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Bartelby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville

Bartelby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville

38 pages digital 1853

208 editions

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The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand, Nippers and Turkey. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlor...

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