Bartleby, The Scrivener

Bartleby, The ScrivenerBartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnams Magazine. It tells the story of Bartleby, a man hired to work in a law firm as a scrivener.