This content is from Wikipedia. We do not consider this content professional or citable. Please use your discretion when relying on it. GradeSaver also offers a professionally written study guide by one of our staff editors.

Introduction

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a long short story, or novelette, by American author Herman Melville (1819–1891). The story first appeared anonymously, in two parts, in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations.