A Story Of Wall Street Herman Melville. A story of wall street (1853). Melville's account of how the eponymous scrivener, whose job is to produce multiple copies of legal documents, slowly and deliberately.
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He describes himself as doing a snug business among. I think of melville the sailor, accustomed to wide sea vistas and many sea duties, recoiling at the confined, reduced lives of new york city office workers. The story first appeared, anonymously, in putnam's magazine in two parts.
A wall street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with with the same vigor he brought to examining man's relationship with nature (and himself) in moby dick, herman melville turns inward in this deeply textured novella.
A story of wall street. In bartleby, the scrivener, an elderly manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known. A story of wall street. It's the wrong book it's the wrong edition other.
