Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street -- Herman Melville, Paperback

Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist, "who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him." During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville's frustration with his own situation as a writer, and the story itself is "about a writer who forsakes conventional modes because of an irresistible preoccupation with the most baffling philosophical questions." Bartleby can also be seen to represent Melville's relation to his commercial, democratic society.

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: 03/16/2012
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9781617206887
Age Range: 14-18