
Bartleby, the Scrivener (A Story of Wall-Street)
Herman Melville
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Summary
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known: Bartleby.