Bartleby the Scrivener: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Bartleby the Scrivener, credited to Herman Melville, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. Read by Bob Tassinari. " A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Bartleby the Scrivener
• Author credits: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:30:05

Catalogue topics

• melville
• depression

Track guide

1. 01 — 22:38
2. 02 — 18:16
3. 03 — 24:36
4. 04 — 24:37

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