# Bartleby, the Scrivener

by [Herman Melville](https://localbooks.app/authors/herman-melville)

- Genres: [Novelas cortas](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/novellas)
- Set in: [Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos](https://localbooks.app/places/us/new-york/new-york-city)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1853
- Pages: 67

## Description

A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet, pale copyist named Bartleby, who works well at first. Then, asked to check a document, Bartleby answers, 'I would prefer not to,' and keeps preferring not to, to everything.

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