Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

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.

A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him.

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.

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891). The narrator, an elderly Manhattan ...

書名：Bartleby, the Scrivener，語言：英文，ISBN：9781542930086，頁數：40，作者：Melville, Herman，出版日期：2017/02/04，類別：文學.

Bartleby the Scrivener, short story by Herman Melville, published anonymously in 1853 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine. It was collected in his 1856 volume The ...

評分 3.9 (72,607) 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.

A story of wall-street. by Herman Melville (The reader of nice perceptions will here perceive that, it being morning, Turkey's answer is couched in polite and ...

The narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is the Lawyer, who runs a law practice on Wall Street in New York.

《錄事巴托比：華爾街的故事》（英語：Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street）是美國作家赫爾曼·梅爾維爾的短篇小說作品。本作於1853年《普特南雜誌（ ...