From the Bookshelf of The New Lifetime Reading Plan…

[close] Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.