{"product_id":"bartleby-the-scrivener","title":"Bartleby The Scrivener","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I prefer not to,\" he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcademics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world - even those daunted by \u003cem\u003eMoby\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eBartleby the Scrivener\u003c\/em\u003e 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\"?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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 Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in Putnam's magazine-to, sadly, critical disdain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2004\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melville House Pub\u003cbr\u003ePages: 64\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0974607800\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780974607801\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51569501274378,"sku":null,"price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780974607801.jpg?v=1753702239","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/bartleby-the-scrivener","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}