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Bartleby, the Scrivener: (annotated) (Editor's Selection)
Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author)

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 ISBN: 1724000861     ISBN-13: 9781724000866
Publisher: Independently Published
OUR PRICE: $5.39  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 14-18
Grade Level: 9-13
Lexile Measure: 1200(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.11" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.17 lbs) 44 pages
 
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The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey, to copy legal documents by hand. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy called Ginger Nut completes the staff. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work, but one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to." To the dismay of the lawyer and the irritation of the other employees, Bartleby performs fewer and fewer tasks and eventually none, instead spending long periods of time staring out one of the office's windows at a brick wall. The narrator makes several futile attempts to reason with Bartleby and to learn something about him; when the narrator stops by the office one Sunday morning, he discovers that Bartleby has started living there.
 
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