[Gutenberg 11231] • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

[Gutenberg 11231] • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

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"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. Numerous essays are published on what according to scholar Robert Milder "is unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction" in the Melville canon.