Bartleby and Other Stories (Classic Fiction)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9626344016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fine Renditions Billyjack D'Urberville These are very high quality readings, well produced and recorded with a rich, interesting, and apt voice for Melville the social chronicler. Voice is everything in the droll story of Bartleby of course--because the enigmatic, silent clerk is really a mirror for the sensibility of the teller, his Wall Street boss. Melville is highlighted here in the best of his city stories, a mode he excelled in as much as his better known sea sagas.The Lightning Rod Man and The Bell Tower, two minor pieces from Piazza Tales, . "Reading Melville" according to DZ. It takes very little time to discover why Melville was a great writer. Even though his writing can seem archaic, you are drawn in by his beautifully crafted sentences. It is too bad that he never found the great sucess he hoped for before he died.. Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Works by Herman Melville Gili G. The kindle book has no table of contents, so If, for example, you want to read Bartleby the Scrivener, you must page (I use the paper-bound term, although I really mean advance through screens) through the 11 works (including Moby Dick) that precede the story you're looking for. I tried using the kindle "location" feature, guessing and putting in numbers that seemed like they might advance me to the general vicinity of where I wanted to be (are they page numbers? I have no idea) but this was impossible, becaus
© AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine. But when the cryptic Bartleby enters the story, the stakes are raised to that of a spiritual drama. Also included are the much shorter stories "The Lightning-Rod Man" and "The Bell-Tower." G.H. From AudioFile One of the world's great short stories starts off as a comedy of the workplace, with an emotionally safe, dignified narrator describing the copyists of his law office and their quirky routines. William Roberts captures the office comedy nicely and also the mounting anguish of the narrator trying and failing t
Melville's "Bartleby" is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is 'I would prefer not to.' It is joined here by two other stores from "The Piazza Tales", Melville's idiosyncratic collection: "The Lightning Rod" and "The Bell Tower". A companion set to the highly-praised collection "Classic American Short Stories" read by William Roberts including "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce.