description: Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is a classic American short story, a strange tale of a constantly busy copyist whose simple refrain, ?I would prefer not to, ? wreaks havoc on his workplace. Invention, imagination, and expression combine with two other stories from Melville's The Piazza Tales: The Lightning-Rod and The Bell-Tower. A companion to the highly-praised collection Classic American Short Stories also performed by William Roberts, and including An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
language: English
title: Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Stories: The Lightning-rod Man, The Bell-Tower
titlecomplete: Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Stories: The Lightning-rod Man, The Bell-Tower
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Short Stories, Classics
ratings_count: 63
publisher: Naxos Audio Books