Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener and other stories
Unabridged
2 hours 38 minutes
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Melville's Bartleby is a classic American short story, a wry tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is 'I would prefer not to.' It is joined here by two other stories from The Piazza Tales, Melville's idiosyncratic collection: The Lightning-Rod Man and The Bell-Tower.
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