Bartleby the Scrivener
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  • Pages:
    52
  • Age Level:
    14-18
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Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world -- even those daunted by Moby-Dick -- Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?
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    • Independently published
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1696157110
    • ISBN13: 9781696157117
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    • Jul-1990
    • Dover Publications
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0486264734
    • ISBN13: 9780486264738
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    • Sep-1995
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0146000129
    • ISBN13: 9780146000126
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    • Jun-2004
    • Melville House Publishing
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0974607800
    • ISBN13: 9780974607801
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    • Aug-2006
    • Dodo Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1406509884
    • ISBN13: 9781406509885
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    • Feb-2007
    • Perfection Learning
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0895986833
    • ISBN13: 9780895986832
    • Library Binding
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    • Apr-1997
    • Simon & Schuster
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0684819104
    • ISBN13: 9780684819105
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    • Aug-1998
    • Yestermorrow
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1567230768
    • ISBN13: 9781567230765
    • Library Binding
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    • Feb-2006
    • Barnes & Noble
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0760777640
    • ISBN13: 9780760777640
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    • Jan-2004
    • NuVision Publications, LLC
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1595474013
    • ISBN13: 9781595474018
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    • May-2009
    • Harper
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0061920967
    • ISBN13: 9780061920967
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    • Jul-2009
    • ReadHowYouWant
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1442940905
    • ISBN13: 9781442940901
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    • Sep-2009
    • Barnes & Noble
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1411429958
    • ISBN13: 9781411429956
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    • Apr-2010
    • eBooksLib
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1412167329
    • ISBN13: 9781412167321
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    • Dec-1991
    • Dercum Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1556561008
    • ISBN13: 9781556561009
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    • Jan-2001
    • Dercum Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1556562055
    • ISBN13: 9781556562051
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    • Jan-2001
    • Dreamscape Media
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1624069428
    • ISBN13: 9781624069420
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    • Oct-2011
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • MP3 CD (abridged)
    • ISBN: 1455112623
    • ISBN13: 9781455112623
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    • Oct-2011
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1455112593
    • ISBN13: 9781455112593
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    • Oct-2011
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1455112607
    • ISBN13: 9781455112609
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    • Sep-2015
    • Createspace
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1517247187
    • ISBN13: 9781517247188
    • Large Print



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