Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist, "who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him." During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melvilleâ...
Call me Ishmael, Moby-Dick begins, in one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western literature. The name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts - in the opening paragraph of Moby-Dick, Ishmael tells the reader that he has turne...
âBilly Buddâ is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first published in Raymond Weaverâs 1924 edition of â...
In this collection readers will find two of Herman Melvilleâs most renowned shorter works, âBartleby: The Scrivenerâ, and âBenito Cerenoâ. The first story, â...