01948nam 2200457 450 991078715230332120230803205516.01-4976-5970-1(CKB)3710000000260227(EBL)1805192(MiAaPQ)EBC1805192(Au-PeEL)EBL1805192(CaONFJC)MIL634140(OCoLC)892800580(EXLCZ)99371000000026022720190301d2014 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBartleby, the scrivener a story of wall-street /Herman MelvilleNew York :Open Road Integrated Media,2014.1 online resource (57 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Cover Page; Title Page; Bartleby, the Scrivener; Copyright PageThe classic tale of existential despair A Wall Street lawyer specializing in bonds and mortgages hires a respectable young man to copy legal documents by hand. At first, the new scrivener approaches his duties with a calm efficiency. Then comes the day when his response to a new assignment is, "I would prefer not to." The mysterious phrase soon becomes Bartleby's reply to everything asked of him, and his surrender to inertia is both maddening and inexorable. Torn between frustration and pity, anger and sorrow, his employer desperately tries to save Bartleby, but the cause is as doomed to disapScriveners (Law)Work environmentWall Street (New York, N.Y.)FictionScriveners (Law)Work environment.813.54Melville Herman132353MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787152303321Bartleby the scrivener52600UNINA