| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38636 |
| QUOTATION: | Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Bartleby” (1853), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987).
Summing up Bartleby’s life and death. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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