“And here Bartleby makes his home, sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous- a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!”

—  Herman Melville , book Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891

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