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Herman Melville, Patrick McGrath
ISBN: 9781843911562
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Hesperus Press Ltd
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When a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives 'pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn'. At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only 'I would prefer not to'. So begins the story of Bartleby which turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy.
When a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, it is Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives 'pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn'. At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only 'I would prefer not to'. So begins the story of Bartleby - passive to the point of absurdity yet paradoxically extremely disruptive - which rapidly turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy.
| ISBN | 1843911566 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781843911562
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 163 | | Publisher | Hesperus Press Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Hesperus Press Ltd | | Series title | Hesperus Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 194 | | Publication date | 16 Aug 2007 | | Width (mm) | 131 | | DEWEY | 813.3 | | Spine width (mm) | 11 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 126 | |
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