num_pages: 184
description: When a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, it is Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only "I would prefer not to." So begins the story of Bartleby—passive to the point of absurdity yet paradoxically extremely disruptive—which rapidly turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy. Accompanying Bartleby , Benito Cereno was first serialized in 1855, and centers around a slave rebellion on board a Spanish merchant ship in 1799.
language: English
title: Bartleby, the Scrivener
titlecomplete: Bartleby, the Scrivener
characters: Nippers, Turkey, Ginger Nut, Bartleby
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, Read For School, American, Novella, Literature, Short Stories, School
ratings_count: 61580
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Hesperus Press