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 century on New York City’s Wall 'street, it
was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story :what if a
young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, I
would prefer not to?
The tale is one of the final works of
fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the
continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he
abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as
it was originally published in Putnam's magazine—to, sadly,
critical disdain.
The Art of The Novella 'series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella
is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it
is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers.
In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this
renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many
instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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