Bartleby, the Scrivener a Story of Wall-street - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617206881 ISBN 13: 9781617206887

Publisher: Lightning Source Inc, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1617206881
• ISBN 13: 9781617206887
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40