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Bartleby, the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
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The life of a scrivener can be a dull one. After all, your entire occupation has to do with the handwritten copying of law documents. But when Bartleby arrives, he turns the office upside down with the enigmatic phrase: “I prefer not to.”

Public Domain (P)2008 B.J. Harrison Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics
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Fine narration, though the English accents (e.g. for the Grub Man turned cockney) were somewhat incongruous: the story is set in Manhattan!!

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Interesting...then disappointing...then on replay in my mind on loop.

Whatever the case, Bartleby is not who you think he is.

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