Title: Bartleby
Title Record # 94230
Author: Herman Melville
Date: 1853-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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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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| 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 | ||||
| "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 | |||
| Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror, and Fantasy | 1946-00-00 | ed. Joseph A. Margolies | Whittlesey House | $3.75?$: US dollar |
x+ 762 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | George Salter | ||
| 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 | |||
| American Short Stories: 1820 to the Present | 1959-00-00 | ed. Eugene Current-García, Walton R. Patrick | Scott, Foresman and Company (Key Editions) | 5401 |
lii+ 633 |
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 | |||
| Affinities: A Short Story Anthology | 1970-09-00 | ed. Harold Jaffe, John Tytell | Thomas Y. Crowell (The Crowell Critical Library #620) | 0-690-05248-0 |
x+ 468 |
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 | |||
| The Treasury of American Short Stories | 1981-00-00 | ed. Nancy Sullivan | Doubleday | 0-385-17139-0 |
xx+ 748 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories | 1988-00-00 | ed. James H. Pickering | Macmillan | 0-02-395541-4 |
ix+ 1533 |
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 | Tom Tomson | ||
| Fictions: Second Edition | 1989-00-00 | ed. C. Wade Jennings, Joseph F. Trimmer | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 0-15-527326-4 |
xi+ 1230 |
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 | Bernard Faucon | ||
| The Treasury of American Short Stories | 1990-00-00 | ed. Nancy Sullivan | Dorset Press | 0-88029-512-0 |
xx+ 748 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
| 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 | |
| The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation | 1997-11-00 | ed. Editors of The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | 0-395-81386-7 |
xvii+ 1235 |
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 | |||
| Great American Short Stories | 2002-07-23 | ed. Paul Negri | Dover Publications | 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 | ||
| American Short Stories | 2007-10-14 | ed. Bert Hitchcock, Margaret Kouidis | Pearson Longman | 0-321-48489-4 | 768 | 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 | |||
| Bartleby, o Escrivão | 2009-00-00 | Herman Melville | Editorial Presença (A Biblioteca de Babel #11) | 978-972-23-4241-4 | 88 | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
chap | |||
| The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction | 2011-00-00 | ed. Ann Charters | Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press | 978-0-312-59624-8 |
xx+ 1168 |
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 | Helen Berggruen | ||
| Great Short Stories by Great American Writers | 2011-06-00 | Thomas Fasano | Coyote Canyon Press | 978-0-9821298-7-6 | 412 | 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. |
coll | George Inness |
