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"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.
- Herman Melville
- 1853
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.
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- Herman Melville
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- 1853
My chambers were up stairs at No.—Wall-street. At one end they looked upon the white wall of the interior of a spacious sky-light shaft, penetrating the building from top to bottom. This view might have been considered rather tame than otherwise, deficient in what landscape painters call “life.”.
Bartleby, the Scrivener Summary & Analysis. The unnamed narrator (who we will refer to as The Lawyer) introduces himself as a “rather elderly man” and establishes that he has had much contact with a set of men that have never before been written about—scriveners, or law-copyists.
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- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- English
- Steve J. Nelson and Clara T. Nelson
‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’: plot summary. The story takes place in the law office on Wall Street in New York City. The narrator is an elderly lawyer who runs an office with two copyists or ‘scriveners’, whose job it is to copy out legal documents by hand. An office boy also works for him.
Full Story Summary. “Bartleby the Scrivener” centers on a "scrivener," or copyist, for a law firm. The story is narrated by the Lawyer, who presently has two other scriveners, Turkey and Nippers, and an errand boy, Ginger Nut. As the story begins, the Lawyer realizes he needs another copyist.
