The tale presents a legal scrivener who exhibits an unusual form of passive resistance, famously responding to requests with the phrase I would prefer not to. ...
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the ...
But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of.
評分 4.3 (706) “Bartleby, The Scrivener” concerns a law practice in New York City. The narrator is an attorney who is the head of the office, and he employs two scriveners and ...
評分 3.9 (69,812) Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street.
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an ...