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Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville

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"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.

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Edition identifiers ISBN-10 3548601944 · ISBN-13 9783548601946

Subjects

  • open_syllabus_project
  • Fiction
  • Young men
  • Copyists
  • classic literature
  • Psychology
  • Securities industry
  • Fiction, history and criticism
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Presidents, united states, messages
  • United states, politics and government, 1815-1861
  • Wall street
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PaperbackJanuary 1, 2001 · Ullstein TB-Vlg
Cover of Bartleby, der Schreiber. Eine Geschichte aus der Wall Street.
Extent
103 pages
Language
German
ISBN-10
3548601944
EAN-13
9783548601946