Herman Melville

Gebundenes Buch

Bartleby, the Scrivener

A Story of Wall Street

Beschreibung

An elderly lawyer hires a scrivener who is visibly disinterested and refuses to work. Bartelby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, by Herman Melville, follows the happenings of a legal office and one reluctant employee. Their lack of production weighs heavily on the owner, eventually forcing his hand.

Autor

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was a prominent American novelist in the nineteenth century. He was one of eight children born into a military family with strong ties to the Revolutionary War. As a young man, he held odd jobs including a seaman, which would inspire his greatest literary works. Melville was an avid reader whose first story Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) was loosely based on his own experiences. Yet, it was Moby Dick, published in 1851, that is considered his great American masterpiece.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 38
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888972946
• Artikelnr.: 68580580