Bartleby the Scrivener - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Herman MelvilleSeries:Art of the NovellaAudience:Young AdultPublish date:5/1/2004Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9780974607801ISBN-10:974607800UPC:9780974607801Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LegalSize:7.09 x 5.06 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCH446CWC1
Bartleby the Scrivener
"I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world--even those daunted by Moby-Dick--Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story:...
Series: Art of the Novella
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9780974607801ISBN-10:974607800UPC:9780974607801Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LegalSize:7.09 x 5.06 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCH446CWC1
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. At eighteen he set sail on a whaler, and upon his return, wrote a series of bestselling adventure novels based on his travels, including Typee and Omoo, which made him famous. Starting with Moby-Dick in 1851, however, his increasingly complex and challenging work drew more and more negative criticism, until 1857 when, after his collection Piazza...
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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