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Can I read Bartleby, The Scrivener on EtoBox?
Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bartleby, The Scrivener about?
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 Melville's frustration with his own situation as a writer, and the story itself is "about a writer who forsakes conventional modes because of an irresistible preoccupation with the most baffling philosophical questions." Bartleby can also be seen to represent Melville's relation to his commercial, democratic society.
Who reads Bartleby, The Scrivener?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Classics
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (67 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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