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<dTitle type=main>Bartleby, the Scrivener.</dTitle>
<dTitle type=sub>A Story of Wall-street.</dTitle>
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<dAuthor>Herman Melville</dAuthor> </byLine>
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<p>I AM a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty
years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an
interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I
know of has ever been written:—I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I have
known very many of them, professionally and privately, and if I pleased,
could relate divers histories, at which good-natured gentlemen might smile,
and sentimental souls might weep. But I waive the biographies of all other
scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener
the strangest I ever saw or heard of. While of other law-copyists I might
write the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done. . . .
