Bartleby, the Scrivener must be the most famous short fiction in American literature. The novella's final lines rank among the most quoted in the canon: "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!" But we can't read ...

Playwright R.L. Lane has set himself a considerable task in adapting "Bartleby the Scrivener," Herman Melville's novella about a morose young copyist whose impenetrable melancholy proves the undoing ...

It's a source of bafflement to me that Bartleby the Scrivener is not the most famous and celebrated book by Herman Melville. It's a flawless and ambiguous work of art – good-ambiguous, not ...

In Herman Melville’s 1851 short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a hyper-efficient Wall Street clerk up-ends office norms by saying he’d “prefer not to” do any of the additional tasks his boss tries ...

As the Occupy Wall Street protest blossoms across America, they are no doubt being watched over by the country’s patron saint of civil disobedience. Bartleby, the hero of Bartleby the Scrivener: A ...

Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” about a Wall Street lawyer’s clerk who decides to decline his duties with the words “I would prefer not to,” might not seem a natural fit for ...

There have been at least five film versions of Herman Melville's novella Bartleby the Scrivener, which is surprising considering how undramatic the plot is. R.L. Lane's stage adaptation, which ...