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Title: Bartleby, The Scrivener
A Story of Wall-Street
Author: Herman Melville
Release Date: February 23, 2004 [eBook #11231]
[Most recently updated: January 6, 2022]
Language: English
Produced by: Steve J. Nelson and Clara T. Nelson
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Bartleby, The Scrivener
A STORY OF WALL-STREET.
by Herman Melville
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last
thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what
would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as
yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the
law-copyists or scriveners. I have known very many of them,
professionally and privately, and if I pleased, could relate divers
histories, at which good-natured gentlemen might smile, and sentimental
souls might weep. But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners
for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the
strangest I ever saw or heard of. While of other law-copyists I might
write the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done.
I believe that no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography
of this man. It is an irreparable loss to literature. Bartleby was one
of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the
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