BartlebyThe Scrivener. E-book. Formato Mobipocket - 9788832508406

BartlebyThe Scrivener. E-book. Formato Mobipocket. Bartleby is a short story first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam&#39;s Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in Herman Melville&#39;s The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy or do any other task required of him, with the words &quot;I would prefer not to&quot;. The lawyer cannot bring himself to remove Bartleby from his premises, and decides instead to move his office, but the new proprietor removes Bartleby to prison, where he perishes.&nbsp;<br />Numerous critical essays have been published on the story, which scholar Robert Milder describes as &quot;unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction&quot; in the Melville canon.