Herman Melville

1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891

An American novelist and poet. Years at sea on whalers and a naval frigate gave him the material for Typee (1846) and Moby-Dick (1851), which found few readers; his stories of the 1850s include “Bartleby, the Scrivener”. He spent nineteen years as a customs inspector in New York, and his reputation was revived only in the 1920s.

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1853

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and…

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