“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
Enter the peculiar world of Wall Street’s legal offices in Herman Melville’s haunting and thought-provoking novella, Bartleby, the
Scrivener.
Follow the perplexing tale of Bartleby, a copyist who, with a single phrase, “I would prefer not to,” challenges the conventions of work,
society, and the human condition itself. As the enigmatic Bartleby’s defiance tests the limits of the narrator’s understanding.
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