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104 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1990
"Why do you refuse?" (Narrator)
"I would prefer not to." (Bartleby)
With any other man I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence. But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but, in a wonderful manner, touched and disconcerted me. I began to reason with him.