{"product_id":"bartleby-the-scrivener-paperback","title":"Bartleby the Scrivener - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I prefer not to,\" he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcademics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world--even those daunted by \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBartleby the Scrivener \u003c\/i\u003eis simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: What if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, \"I would prefer not to\"? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in \u003ci\u003ePutnam\u003c\/i\u003e's magazine--to, sadly, critical disdain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art of the Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York City in 1819. At eighteen he set sail on a whaler, and upon his return, wrote a series of bestselling adventure novels based on his travels, including \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOmoo\u003c\/i\u003e, which made him famous. Starting with \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e in 1851, however, his increasingly complex and challenging work drew more and more negative criticism, until 1857 when, after his collection \u003ci\u003ePiazza Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (which included \u003ci\u003eBartleby the Scrivener\u003c\/i\u003e), and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Confidence Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Melville stopped publishing fiction. He drifted into obscurity, writing poetry and working for the Customs House in New York City, until his death in 1891.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 7.09 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772819865888,"sku":"9780974607801","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8b13b42dee052e9f6fc20bff400264c1.webp?v=1780415052","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bartleby-the-scrivener-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}