Bartelby the Scrivener Bartelby the Scrivener
and other stories

by Herman Melville

Read by William Roberts

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Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is ‘I would prefer not to.’ It is joined here by two other stories from The Piazza Tales, Melville’s idiosyncratic collection: ‘The Lightning-Rod Man’ and ‘The Bell Tower’.

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2 CDs • Running Time: c.2½ hours • ISBN: 9-62634-401-6 • Catalogue no: NA240112 • RRP: £10.99

A companion set to the highly-praised collection American Short Stories read by William Roberts, including ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ by Ambrose Bierce.

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