Hello and happy Sunday. Do you remember, years ago when this blog was just starting, that I mentioned how I’d hated Moby-Dick by Herman Melville? Okay, I didn’t hate it, but I was bored out of my mind. Now, recently I read Bartleby, The Scrivener, a short story by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think this should be the required reading at school, not the full-length novel.

This is a very short story, so I won’t tell you a lot about it. It’s set in Wall Street and it is narrated by this guy who has an office, I assume of something related to the stock market, but I don’t really know or remember whether that was mentioned. Anyway, one day Bartleby starts working for him as, you guessed it, a scrivener, and the boss/narrator discovers he’s a very peculiar person. Not much else happens, but the story is entertaining.