{"product_id":"bartleby-the-scrivener-9781500198763","title":"Bartleby: The Scrivener","description":"\"Ah, Bartleby  Ah, humanity \" Set in 19th century Wall Street, \"Bartleby, the Scrivener\" is now among the most noted of American short stories. It has been considered a precursor of absurdist literature, touching on several of Franz Kafka's themes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville was an American novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. His contributions to the Western canon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) about a clerk in a Wall Street office; the slave ship narrative Benito Cereno (1855); and Billy Budd, Sailor (1924). When asked which of the great American writers he most admired, Vladimir Nabokov replied: \"When I was young I liked Poe, and I still love Melville, whom I did not read as a boy.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50912607994130,"sku":"9781500198763","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f561e553-d7bd-4c26-a109-b55ffd7699f4.jpg?v=1738775218","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bartleby-the-scrivener-9781500198763","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}