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Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
First Published
2009
Subjects
open_syllabus_project
Fiction
Young men
Copyists
classic literature
Psychology
Securities industry
Fiction, history and criticism
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Presidents, united states, messages
United states, politics and government, 1815-1861
Wall street
Wall street--fiction
Young men--fiction
Copyists--fiction
Ps2384 .b26 2004
813/.3
Description
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.