Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street (1853): Library Resources

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Full text of Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street" is also available on the Web at:

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street." These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• The American Renaissance
  
• American Writers [vol 3]
• A Companion to Herman Melville
• Critical Companion to Herman Melville: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction [vol 5]
• The Critical Temper: A Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginnings to the Twentieth Century [vols 3, 4]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 2]
• Masterplots II: Short Story Series [vol 1]
• Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 3, 12, 29, 49, 93, 123, 193] - check under "Bartleby, the Scrivener" in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
• Notable American Novelists [vol 2]
• Short Story Criticism [vols 1, 17, 46]
• Short Stories for Students [vol 3]
• Understanding Melville's Short Fiction: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

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