This is the full text of the short story "Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street" by Herman Melville. A successful lawyer on Wall Street hires Bartleby, a scrivener, to relieve the load of work experienced by his law firm. For two days, Bartleby executes his job with skill and gains the owner's confidence, but then the copyist begins demonstrating signs of mental imbalance by refusing to do the work.

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)