Bartleby, the Scrivener must be the most famous short fiction in American literature. The novella's final lines rank among the most quoted in the canon: "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!" But we can't ...

It's a source of bafflement to me that Bartleby the Scrivener is not the most famous and celebrated book by Herman Melville. It's a flawless and ambiguous work of art – good-ambiguous, not why ...

Herman Melville’s character Bartleby the scrivener famously said he “would prefer not to,” and 160 years later the owner of Bartleby’s Books would prefer not to see Amazon.com Inc. control ...

NEW BEDFORD — Aviary Books will be hosting their first Melville Short Story Marathon, featuring the stories "Bartleby the Scrivener," "The Encantadas" and "The Lightning-Rod Man" on Jan. 3.The ...

But they went back to it, the sound hit them, and the name stuck. (For the record, Herman Melville wrote the well-regarded 19th century story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A story of Wall Street ...

The discussion will cover Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” at 7 p.m. June 10 at Burrowing Owl Books in Amarillo, 2461 W. I-40 in Wolflin Square.