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Title: Bartleby Title Record # 94230
Author: Herman Melville
Date: 1853-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: First published (unsigned) in the magazine Putnam's Monthly, in two parts, November and December 1853.
Synopsis: A lawyer hires a clerk who, after a while, begins to reply to each and every request with, "I would prefer not to."
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Current Tags: absurdist (1), Wall St. (1), clerk (1), first person point of view (1), isolation (1), dead letter office (1), passivity (1), resistance (1) Add Tags

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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1853 Bartleby: A Story of Wall Street
1853 Bartleby the Scrivener
1853 Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
1853 Bartleby, the Scrivener
1853 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Year Language Title
2009Translated by Maria João da Rocha Afonso
Portuguese Bartleby, o Escrivão

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Piazza Tales 1856-05-00 Herman Melville Dix & Edwards     2+
431
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries: (Third Series) 1937-00-00 ed. uncredited Oxford University Press (The World's Classics #315)     viii+
507
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
"Come Not, Lucifer!" 1945-07-00 ed. uncredited John Westhouse  
12/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
267
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror, and Fantasy 1946-00-00 ed. Joseph A. Margolies Whittlesey House  
$3.75?$: US dollar
x+
762
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth George Salter Checkmark
Best Horror Stories 1957-00-00 ed. John Keir Cross Faber and Faber  
15/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
300
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
American Short Stories: 1820 to the Present 1959-00-00 ed. Eugene Current-García, Walton R. Patrick Scott, Foresman and Company (Key Editions) 5401   lii+
633
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Best Horror Stories 1962-00-00 ed. John Keir Cross Faber and Faber (Faber Paper Covered Editions)  
6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
300
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Affinities: A Short Story Anthology 1970-09-00 ed. Harold Jaffe, John Tytell Thomas Y. Crowell (The Crowell Critical Library #620) 0-690-05248-0   x+
468
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
The Treasury of American Short Stories 1981-00-00 ed. Nancy Sullivan Doubleday 0-385-17139-0   xx+
748
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories 1988-00-00 ed. James H. Pickering Macmillan 0-02-395541-4   ix+
1533
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
Fictions: Second Edition 1989-00-00 ed. C. Wade Jennings, Joseph F. Trimmer Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-527326-4   xi+
1230
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Bernard Faucon  
The Treasury of American Short Stories 1990-00-00 ed. Nancy Sullivan Dorset Press 0-88029-512-0   xx+
748
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic 1991-01-00 ed. Alberto Manguel Clarkson N. Potter 0-517-57559-0
$14.95?$: US dollar
xx+
941
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth George Tooker  
White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature 1991-04-00 ed. Alberto Manguel Picador 0-330-31380-0
£9.99?£: UK pound
xx+
941
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth George Tooker  
The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation 1997-11-00 ed. Editors of The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction Houghton Mifflin 0-395-81386-7   xvii+
1235
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Great American Short Stories 2002-07-23 ed. Paul Negri Dover Publications 0-486-42119-8
$3.50?$: US dollar
vi+
248
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
American Short Stories 2007-10-14 ed. Bert Hitchcock, Margaret Kouidis Pearson Longman 0-321-48489-4   768
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Bartleby, o Escrivão 2009-00-00 Herman Melville Editorial Presença (A Biblioteca de Babel #11) 978-972-23-4241-4   88
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
chap  
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction 2011-00-00 ed. Ann Charters Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-59624-8   xx+
1168
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
Great Short Stories by Great American Writers 2011-06-00 Thomas Fasano Coyote Canyon Press 978-0-9821298-7-6   412
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
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