β Scribed by Herman Melville
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Herman Melville wrote Bartleby the Scrivener as an emotional response to the fact that his masterpiece Moby-Dick was not selling as well as he had expected. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's ess
"I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world'even those daunted by Moby-Dick'Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th centur