Bartleby Bartleby Bartleby Bartleby #FridayRecommends

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Marian Allen

Do you love “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville? What am I saying? Of course you do! If you haven’t read it, you can read it online or download it in multiple formats — FOR FREE — at Project Gutenberg. Or, if you prefer, you can go to Bartleby.com: Great Books Online, which is a fabulous source, anyway.

So read the story, and then go read this take-off by Jay at Bibliophilopolis. You’re welcome.

I live in fear that I’ll read an announcement that “Bartleby the Scrivener” is being made into a musical by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The Amazing Sara Marian would probably go to see it, but I would prefer not to.

A WRITING PROMPT BASED ON MY POST: A character has to deal with a puzzlingly difficult employee.

About Marian Allen

I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but now live in the woods in southern Indiana. Though I only write fiction, I love to read non-fiction. The more I learn about this world, the more fantastic I see it is. Marian Allen's Amazon profile

One thought on “Bartleby Bartleby Bartleby Bartleby #FridayRecommends”

John Holton
December 22, 2017 at 2:50pm

I read Bartleby in junior year of high school. One day the teacher asked someone a question that he couldn’t answer, so she turned to me. “John, can you answer the question?” My answer, naturally, was “I prefer not to.”

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  Marian Allen
  December 22, 2017 at 5:35pm
  
  Hee hee! Did your teacher appreciate that or not?
  
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  - John Holton
    December 22, 2017 at 6:18pm
    
    She laughed, muttered “smartass” under her breath, and called on someone else. I got that a lot…
    
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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
December 23, 2017 at 4:08pm

No, but I use his program daily for hours.

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  Marian Allen
  December 23, 2017 at 5:58pm
  
  Hee hee hee!
  
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