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By Herman Melville
On errands of life, these letters speed to death. Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!
- Source
- The Piazza Tales (first book edition), 1856 · "Bartleby", p. 107 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first book edition, New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856)
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The closing lines of Herman Melville's story "Bartleby" (The Piazza Tales, New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856). The narrator, Bartleby's employer, a New York lawyer, speaks after telling a rumor that Bartleby once worked in the Dead Letter Office.