Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Herman Melville

I am a rather elderly man.

Herman Melville

Author of "Typee," "Omoo," etc., etc., etc.

Herman Melville

Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.