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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street (1853) (Completed)

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In "Bartleby, the Scrivener," an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.

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