Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Bartleby, The Scrivener

A STORY OF WALL-STREET.

by Herman Melville

I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I have know...