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| Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. |
| —Bartleby, the Scrivener |
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| Herman Melville |
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| 1819–91, American author, b. New York City, considered one of the great American writers and a major figure in world literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  m l´v l from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
In this classic short story, Melville presents us with a perplexing legal scrivener, Bartleby, and the havoc he creates around him.
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- Melville, Herman, 38632 to 39071
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT MELVILLE
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- Melville, Typee; Omoo, Mardi, Moby Dick
Section by Carl Van Doren from the Cambridge History of American Literature.
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