![]() What got me to read it, finally? The desire to be in on the joke! “ I would prefer not to.” I wander around downtown Manhattan, from Wall Street to Trinity Church to City Hall, the book’s haunts, and, indeed, I dabble in the law of stocks and bonds as does the book’s narrator - and not many great works of literature go there. I know many tastes I admire love this book. After all, I’m a fan of American fiction. “I would prefer not to.” How long has that phrase haunted me because I didn’t know what it meant to literature! I confess: I had never read Melville’s short masterpiece, Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street. ![]() Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville (1853) Melville House (2004) 64 pp ![]()
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