Bartleby The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street

"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.

Also contained in:

• Bartleby and Benito Cereno
• Benito Cereno / Bartleby, the Scrivener / Encantadas / Billy Budd
• Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories
• Billy Budd and Other Tales
• Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
• Billy Budd and other stories
• Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
• Complete Shorter Fiction
• Five Tales
• Great American Short Stories
• Great Short Works of Herman Melville
• Great American Short Stories
• Great American Short Stories
• Happy Failure: Stories
• Novels. Selections
• Piazza Tales
• Portable Melville
• Selected Tales and Poems
• Selected Writings of Herman Melville