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Bartleby, the Scrivener (A Story of Wall-Street)

Herman Melville

Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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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.
Available since: 02/01/2004.

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