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Bartleby the Scrivener and other stories
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Narrator
- William Roberts
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 December 2005
- Run Time
- 2 hours 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
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- Author
- Herman Melville
- Narrator
- William Roberts
- Duration
- 2 hours 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 December 2005
- ISBN
- 9789629545550
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
Melville’s Bartleby is a classic American short story, a strange 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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