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Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series) by Herman Melville Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-9746078-0-0 / 0974607800 ISBN-13: 978-0-9746078-0-1 / 9780974607801 "I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th centu |