Bartleby the Scrivener, And, Benito Cereno

Bartleby the Scrivener, And, Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville

126 pages
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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.

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