Bartleby the Scrivener - (Art of the Novella) by Herman Melville (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>I prefer not to, he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.</b> <p/>Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world--even those daunted by <i>Moby-Dick</i>--<i>Bartleby the Scrivener </i>is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: What if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, I would prefer not to? <p/>The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after <i>Moby-Dick</i>, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in <i>Putnam</i>'s magazine--to, sadly, critical disdain. <p/><b>The Art of The Novella Series <p/> </b>Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art of the Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>I've always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it's the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher's fine 'Art of the Novella' series.<br> <b>--<i>The New Yorker</i></b> <p/><b>Praise for the Art of the Novella Series</b> <p/><b><i> </i></b>I wanted them all, even those I'd already read. <b>--Ron Rosenbaum, <i>The New York Observer</i></b> <p/> Small wonders.<br> <b>--<i>Time Out London</i></b> <p/> <i></i>[F]irst-rate...astutely selected and attractively packaged...indisputably great works.<br> <b>--Adam Begley, <i>The New York Observer</i></b> <p/> The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed--tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are.<br> <b>--KQED (NPR San Francisco)</b> <p/> Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package.<br> <b>--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Herman Melville</b> was born in New York City in 1819. At eighteen he set sail on a whaler, and upon his return, wrote a series of bestselling adventure novels based on his travels, including <i>Typee</i> and <i>Omoo</i>, which made him famous. Starting with <i>Moby-Dick</i> in 1851, however, his increasingly complex and challenging work drew more and more negative criticism, until 1857 when, after his collection <i>Piazza Tales</i> (which included <i>Bartleby the Scrivener</i>), and the novel <i>The Confidence Man</i>, Melville stopped publishing fiction. He drifted into obscurity, writing poetry and working for the Customs House in New York City, until his death in 1891.
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