# Bartleby the Scrivener

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- Book: [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/bartleby-the-scrivener) ([Bartleby, the Scrivener.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/bartleby-the-scrivener.md))
- Authors: [Herman Melville](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville)
- Publisher: Melville House
- ISBN: 978-09-7460-780-1
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2004-05-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" 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...