Bartleby: A Scrivener's Tale

By: Catherine Anthony Foy

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

In the spring of 1841, a lonely worker in Washington's Dead Letter Office encounters a package that prompts him to quit his job and travel into the western wilderness in search of a woman he’s never met, to claim land he doesn’t own, using a name that isn’t his. There he discovers danger and opportunity, the beauty and corruption of the frontier, and the darkness of his own heart. Striving for redemption, he encounters Indian agents and displaced tribes, escaping slaves, and new immigrants come, like him, to find their fortunes in the promised land of America. From the debauchery of Washington and New York, across the newly opened canals and into the wide wilderness of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Bartleby pursues his intended bride and his stolen chance at fortune. When his bride dies in childbirth he must save himself and his beloved baby daughter from the sinister characters with whom he has become entangled. For Herman Melville fans, here are the answers to Bartleby's strange behaviors in the original tale "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and an intimate glimpse into the man's soul. This novel contains sexually explicit material. Parental guidance suggested.