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. ...
評分 3.9 (69,805) 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.
Bartleby, The Scrivener. A STORY OF WALL-STREET. by Herman Melville. I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has ...
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. Melville Stories · Character List CHARACTERS · Themes LITERARY DEVICES
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 American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the ...
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 ...