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	"Bartleby The Scrivener"
		The short story "Bartleby The Scrivener" is an almost surrealistic story about a man who refuses to do anything he does not "prefer to", and endly he refuses to do anything.
		He is the opposite of Bartleby: he observes the world around him with sensibility, and a large proportion of his thinking is about his fellow-men - his employees, his clients, and Bartleby.
		When Bartleby gave up these instincts he died, and that without any insults from outside; he died in an environment which was not even hostile against him.
	www.uni-miskolc.hu /~nyeted/bartleby.htm (1242 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener -- Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener, the strangest I ever saw or heard of.
		Bartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable except from the original sources, and, in his case, those are very small.
		Ere introducing the scrivener as he first appeared to me, it is fit I make some mention of myself, my employees, my business, my chambers and general surroundings, because some such description is indispensable to an adequate understanding of the chief character about to be presented.
	www.litrix.com /bartleby/bartl001.htm (3821 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bartleby, however, only repeats his mantra, and the narrator eventually fires him; Bartleby, however, continues to haunt the premises, causing the lawyer considerable embarrassment.
		Bartleby, however, replies "No: at present, I prefer not to make any change at all." The new tenants have Bartleby arrested for vagrancy, and he is sent to The Tombs.
		Bartleby, one of his victims, is a forlorn rebel, and his constantly reiterated "I would prefer not to" represents his rejection of 19th-century capitalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bartleby_the_Scrivener (1051 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener Web Study Text
		But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener the strangest I ever saw or heard of.
		Bartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and in his case those are very small.
		I resolved to assign Bartleby a corner by the folding-doors, but on my side of them, so as to have this quiet man within easy call, in case any trifling thing was to be done.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/webtexts/bartleby (9866 words)

	SparkNotes: Melville Stories: "Bartleby the Scrivener"
		The narrator of "Bartleby the Scrivener" is the Lawyer, who runs a law practice on Wall Street in New York.
		Bartleby is, according to the Lawyer, "one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and, in his case, those were very small."
		Bartleby's initial response of "I would prefer not to," seems innocent at first, but soon it becomes a mantra, a slogan that is an essential part of Bartleby's character.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/melvillestories/section1.html (1063 words)

	Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"
		In the nineteenth century, scriveners were something like the legal secretaries of today; in the days before the typewriter, the computer, and the photocopier, scriveners made duplicate copies of legal documents.
		We can, to some extent, rationalize his inability to toss Bartleby out on his ear to his earlier-stated conviction that "the easiest way of life is the best." And of course it is easier on the conscience to simply allow Bartleby to stay on than to call the police and have him removed.
		To his credit, he tracks Bartleby down to the Tombs and attempts to reason with him that this is the best place for him, but both know it is a travesty; Bartleby cannot live by any rules just as the narrator, whose entire life is bound by rules, cannot enforce any.
	www.storybites.com /melvillebartleby.htm (757 words)

	Melville, Herman. 1853. Bartleby, the Scrivener
		Ere introducing the scrivener, as he first appeared to me, it is fit I make some mention of myself, my employées, my business, my chambers, and general surroundings; because some such description is indispensable to an adequate understanding of the chief character about to be presented.
		As I afterwards learned, the poor scrivener, when told that he must be conducted to the Tombs, offered not the slightest obstacle, but in his pale unmoving way, silently acquiesced.
		The report was this: that Bartleby had been a subordinate clerk in the Dead Letter Office at Washington, from which he had been suddenly removed by a change in the administration.
	www.bartleby.com /129 (11732 words)

	Amazon.com: Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series): Books: Herman Melville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Though Bartleby is initially a hard worker, one day, when asked to proofread, he responds, "I would prefer not to." As time progresses, Bartleby increasingly "prefers not to" do anything asked of him.
		Bartleby was good at the copying part of his job, but when asked to proofread aloud one day he simply replied, "I prefer not to." From that moment forward, he used the phrase "I prefer not to" for every task requested of him, eventually "preferring not to" do any work whatsoever.
		Bartleby will also not leave his office, even after the building is bought by someone else, and so is thrown in jail for vagrancy, where he dies.
	www.amazon.com /Bartleby-Scrivener-Story-Street-Novella/dp/0974607800 (2181 words)

	CM2006 Article: Deines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bartleby is one of ‘those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and in his case those are very small.’ The original sources of Bartleby’s social existence never see the light of day and come, in speech only, from the man of Law himself.
		Bartleby is explicitly invoked at the end of an exhaustive and stunning discussion conducted by Derrida on the story of Abraham and Isaac and its relation to problems of responsibility, sacrifice, and secrecy.
		Bartleby’s utterance, this ‘responsibility of a response without a response,’ therefore becomes a kind of symptom of this structure: one can only be responsible to one, which is the singular other; in being responsible to the singular other, one must be irresponsible to all the others.
	culturemachine.tees.ac.uk /Articles/Deines.htm (9973 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener, a CurtainUp review
		Bartleby the Scrivener, a defiantly dry mid-nineteenth century story by Herman Melville, its central character an unusually silent and enigmatic copyist in an attorney’s office, would not have seemed by many literati to be a great choice for adaptation.
		Bartleby at first is an ideal worker, even a model for the others in his delighted employer’s eyes.
		While Standard’s considerable bluster in response to Bartleby’s increasingly exasperating behavior may surprise some familiar with the story, Bamman never departs from the essentials of his character, and resoundingly commands the stage, never warranting a charge of excess.
	www.curtainup.com /bartlebythescrivener.html (932 words)

	HOME-WCU-Fall 2001 Bartleby the Scrivener - Questions for Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In addition to all of the background material I'd like to share with you, we could easily pick any of these topics and spend quite a bit of time hashing them around, picking their fruits.
		The Boss doesn't recognize that his own passiveness is as persistent and frustrating as Bartleby's.
		Bartleby is stubborn, self-absorbed, rebellious, and insubordinate, yet many readers, and even the narrator, the Boss himself, have a deep sympathy for him.
	brainstorm-services.com /wcu/bartleby.html (512 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener by Professor Herman Melville (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		Bartleby's implacable passivity, expressed in his constant iteration of the phrase "I prefer not to," has a strange effect on those with whom he comes in contact.
		BARTLEBY is one of Melville's most appealing and enduring works.
		Bartleby the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street (the Art of the Novella Series)
	www.alibris.com /search/books/qwork/575843/used/Bartleby%20the%20Scrivener (330 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street Study Guide by Herman Melville
		Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street Essay #1
		Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street Study Guide consists of approx.
		Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street from Short Stories for Students.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-bartlebyscrivener (265 words)

	Bartleby The Scrivener
		There have been at least five film versions of Herman Melville's novella Bartleby the Scrivener, which is surprising considering how undramatic the plot is. R.L. Lane's stage adaptation, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the late 1990s and is now having its American premiere, has not solved this problem.
		Bartleby's passive-aggressive stance is likely an early cry against mechanization and the assembly line, which were to turn so many workers into automatons.
		The problem with Marco Quaglia's performance as Bartleby is that he has made the character into a cipher rather than someone who is making a political statement by his inertia.
	www.backstage.com /bso/news_reviews/nyc/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001435816 (316 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener: Selected Bibliography
		D'Avanzo, Mario L. "Melville's 'Bartleby' and Carlyle." A Symposium: Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville Annual, 1965).
		"Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Bleak House." Hamden Court: Archon, 1979.
		"Introduction: B Is for Bartleby." Bartleby the Inscrutable: A Collection of Commentary on Herman Melville's Tale "Bartleby the Scrivener." Ed.
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl311/bartle.htm (1323 words)

	Bartleby (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After he hires Bartleby to be a clerk in his office, the (unnamed) employer quickly discovers that the taciturn, quirky young man has no intention of doing any work - and, even more strangely, that he feels no compulsion to explain his state of self-imposed inertia.
		What makes Bartleby fascinating is that he is a nonconformist simply by nature and not because he has any real bone to pick with society or the people around him.
		But it is Bartleby's defining phrase, `I would prefer not to' - delivered like a refrain throughout the course of the story - that speaks for those in society who question the value and purpose of the myriad irrelevant tasks we are compelled to perform as we make our way through life.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0230025 (765 words)

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	Herman Melville: The Questionable Bartleby
		Upon reviewing the enigma of Bartleby, I have a compilation of thoughts from several authors that offer their ideas as to his origin, purpose, and personality.
		This is the first print version of “Bartleby the Scrivener” as written by Herman Melville.
		Dan McCall provides a critical examination of Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener.” He examines sources pertinent in Melville’s life that might have supplied an incentive for the character of Bartleby.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/studentsamlit/melville.htm (1901 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener: Selected Bibliography
		D'Avanzo, Mario L. "Melville's 'Bartleby' and Carlyle." A Symposium: Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville Annual, 1965).
		"Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Bleak House." Hamden Court: Archon, 1979.
		"Introduction: B Is for Bartleby." Bartleby the Inscrutable: A Collection of Commentary on Herman Melville's Tale "Bartleby the Scrivener." Ed.
	www.wsu.edu /%7Ecampbelld/amlit/bartle.htm (1323 words)

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		Firing Bartleby and kicking him out would have been something; instead, the narrator strings the whole affair along until the matter is literally torn from his grasp.
		One of the most common methods of interpreting "Bartleby" is to view him as a cutting critique of modern industrial development.
		Bartleby isn't meant to be figured out and explained away.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/s98/cr.htm (1228 words)

	Bartleby, the Scrivener
		"Bartleby," said I, "I owe you twelve dollars on account; here are thirty-two; the odd twenty are yours.--Will you take it?" and I handed the bills towards him.
		Despairing of all further efforts, I was precipitately leaving him, when a final thought occurred to me--one which had not been wholly unindulged before.
		I narrated all I knew, and closed by suggesting the idea of letting him remain in as indulgent confinement as possible till something less harsh might be done--though indeed I hardly knew what.
	www.hennessey.lib.ok.us /Bartleby.htm (11693 words)

	Bartleby, The Scrivener
		Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done.
		Bartleby, that is all I know of him, except,
		Bartleby was to have left there for me, when
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	Bartleby the Scrivener
		I placed his desk close up to a small sidewindow in that part of the room, a window which originally had afforded a lateral view of certain grimy back-yards and bricks, but which, owing to subsequent erections, commanded at present no view at all, though it gave some light.
		I tried to fancy that in the course of the morning, at such time as might prove agreeable to him, Bartleby, of his own free accord, would emerge from hishermitage, and take up some decided line of march in the direction of the door.
		Also, when a Reference was going on, and the room full of lawyers and witnesses and business was driving fast; some deeply occupied legal gentleman present, seeing Bartleby wholly unemployed, woul request him to run round to his (the legal gentleman's) office and fetch some papers for him.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/webtexts/bartleby/bartleby.html (11633 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener (Ftrain.com)
		“Bartleby,” said I, “I owe you twelve dollars on account; here are thirty-two; the odd twenty are yours.
		I narrated all I knew, and closed by suggesting the idea of letting him remain in as indulgent confinement as possible till something less harsh might be done — though indeed I hardly knew what.
		Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville, Herman, published Tuesday, January 25, 2000.
	www.ftrain.com /bartleby.html (11843 words)

	Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville - Read Print
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		I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:--I mean the law-copyists or scriveners.
		"Bartleby," said I, "I owe you twelve dollars on account; here are thirty-two; the odd twenty are yours.--Will you take it?" and I handed the bills towards him.
	www.readprint.com /work-1209/Herman-Melville (11756 words)

	Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville - Microsoft Reader eBook
		One day Bartleby is asked to proofread one of the documents he copied to which he simply replies that he would prefer not to.
		Bartleby continues to participate less and less in the office work.
		When Bartleby is forced out of the offices, he roams the hallways.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/101011-ebook.htm (996 words)

	Short Stories: Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
		"Bartleby," said I, "I owe you twelve dollars on account; here are thirty-two; the odd twenty are yours - will you take it?" and I handed the bills towards him.
		Without loudly bidding Bartleby depart - as an inferior genius might have done - I assumed the ground that depart he must; and upon the assumption built all I had to say.
		It was the circumstance of being alone in a solitary office, up stairs, of a building entirely unhallowed by humanizing domestic associations - an uncarpeted office, doubtless, of a dusty, haggard sort of appearance - this it must have been, which greatly helped to enhance the irritable desperation of the hapless Colt.
	www.eastoftheweb.com /short-stories/UBooks/BarScr.shtml (11787 words)

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		Blue Heron Theatre opens its 18th season with the American premiere of Bartleby, The Scrivener, playwright R.L. Lane's adaptation of Herman Melville's famous novella about Wall Street.
		In "Bartleby," Melville turned from the vast ocean and endless sky that dominated Moby Dick to the hermetically sealed world of a mid-nineteenth century Wall Street lawyer's office.
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	Welcome
		line of Herman Melville’s classic American short story Bartleby, the Scrivener reads
		And so, Bartleby.com—after the humble character of its namesake scrivener, or copyist—publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant.
		Bartleby.com began as a personal research experiment in 1993 and within one year published the first classic book on the Web (Whitman’s Leaves of Grass).
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