Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street, E-bok

Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story from 1852 by Herman Melville. Bartleby is hired to work as a scrivener alongside two other clerks, Nippers and Turkey, for an unnamed, elderly lawyer in New York. At first, he produces high-quality work but suddenly his work ethic takes a turn, and Bartleby reply to every task he is given becomes I would prefer not to. The story was in part inspired by Emerson’s essay The Transcendentalist and has been adapted to film twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American writer, best known for his whaling novel, ‘Moby-Dick or, The Whale’ (1851), which was poorly received at the time but is considered a classic today.Melville, along with authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, was part of the American Renaissance, a literary movement that aimed to provide literature for the American democracy.EPUB3: Reflowable

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