Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street Livre audio (téléchargement gratuit)

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of "Putnam's Magazine", and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his "The Piazza Tales "in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy or do any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to". The lawyer cannot bring himself to remove Bartleby from his premises and decides instead to move his office, but the new proprietor removes Bartleby to prison, where he perishes.

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