Bartleby, the Scrivener quotes
5 quotes from Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About Herman Melville
I would prefer not to.
pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby.
I like to be stationary. But I am not particular.
Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men?
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!
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