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Title: Bartleby Title Record # 94230
Author: Herman Melville
Date: 1853-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: First published (unsigned) in the magazine Putnam's Monthly, in two parts, November and December 1853.
Synopsis: A lawyer hires a clerk who, after a while, begins to reply to each and every request with, "I would prefer not to."
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Current Tags: absurdist (1), Wall St. (1), clerk (1), first person point of view (1), isolation (1), dead letter office (1), passivity (1), resistance (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1853 Bartleby: A Story of Wall Street
1853 Bartleby the Scrivener
1853 Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
1853 Bartleby, the Scrivener
1853 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Year Language Title
2009Translated by Maria Joćo da Rocha Afonso
Portuguese Bartleby, o Escrivćo

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Piazza Tales 1856-05-00 Herman Melville Dix & Edwards     2+
431
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries: (Third Series) 1937-00-00 ed. uncredited Oxford University Press (The World's Classics #315)     viii+
507
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
"Come Not, Lucifer!" 1945-07-00 ed. uncredited John Westhouse  
12/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
267
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Best Horror Stories 1957-00-00 ed. John Keir Cross Faber and Faber  
15/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
300
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Best Horror Stories 1962-00-00 ed. John Keir Cross Faber and Faber (Faber Paper Covered Editions)  
6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
300
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic 1990-00-00 ed. Alberto Manguel Lester & Orpen Dennys 0-88619-124-6   xx+
941
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth George Tooker  
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic 1991-01-00 ed. Alberto Manguel Clarkson N. Potter 0-517-57559-0
$14.95?$: US dollar
xx+
941
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth George Tooker  
White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature 1991-04-00 ed. Alberto Manguel Picador 0-330-31380-0
£9.99?£: UK pound
xx+
941
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth George Tooker  
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic 1992-06-00 ed. Alberto Manguel Vintage Canada 0-394-22264-4
C$20.00?C$: Canadian dollar
xx+
941
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth George Tooker  
Great American Short Stories 2002-07-23 ed. Paul Negri Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions) 0-486-42119-8
$3.50?$: US dollar
vi+
248
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic date unknown ed. Alberto Manguel Clarkson Potter 0-517-57559-0
$17.50?$: US dollar
xx+
941
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth George Tooker  
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