Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street e-bog

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"e; is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, refusing with the words "e;I would prefer not to."e; Numerous critical essays have been published about the story, which scholar Robert Milder describes as "e;unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction"e; in the Melville canon.