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Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
—Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman
Melville
 
Herman Melville
 
1819–91, American author, b. New York City, considered one of the great American writers and a major figure in world literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  ml´vl from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
WORKS
 
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
In this classic short story, Melville presents us with a perplexing legal scrivener, Bartleby, and the havoc he creates around him.
 
Melville, Herman, 38632 to 39071
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
 
 
WRITINGS ABOUT MELVILLE
 
Melville, Typee; Omoo, Mardi, Moby Dick
Section by Carl Van Doren from the Cambridge History of American Literature.
 
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