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
Bartleby the Scrivener
โ Scribed by Melville, Herman
- Book ID
- 105423791
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 30 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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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
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Bartleby, the Scrivener is the short story by Herman Melville now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic. ### Review ''Herman Melville is one of American literature's greatest figures.'' --*The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English* ### About the Author HERMAN MELVILLE (18
"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