Author(s): Melville, Herman
Reader(s): Roberts, William
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA240112
Barcode: 9789626344019
Release Date: 02/2006

MELVILLE, H.: Bartleby the Scrivener / The Lightning-Rod Man / The Bell-Tower (Unabridged)

Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is ‘I would prefer not to.’ It is joined here by two other stories from The Piazza Tales, Melville’s idiosyncratic collection: ‘The Lightning-Rod Man’ and ‘The Bell Tower’.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Melville, Herman - Author
Roberts, William (Reader)
1I am a rather elderly man04:05
Roberts, William (Reader)
2Some time prior to the period at which this little history begins...03:12
Roberts, William (Reader)
3There are many singular coincidences I have known...03:03
Roberts, William (Reader)
4‘With submission, sir,’ said Turkey...02:51
Roberts, William (Reader)
5Among the manifestations of his diseased ambition...02:40
Roberts, William (Reader)
6Though concerning the self-indulgent habits of Turkey...03:22
Roberts, William (Reader)
7Now my original business – that of conveyancer...02:09
Roberts, William (Reader)
8At first Bartleby did an extraordinary quantity of writing...03:57
Roberts, William (Reader)
9A few days after this, Bartleby concluded...02:45
Roberts, William (Reader)
10It is not seldom the case that when a man is browbeaten...03:39
Roberts, William (Reader)
11Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance…03:37
Roberts, William (Reader)
12‘Bartleby’, said I, ‘Ginger Nut is away...’02:25
Roberts, William (Reader)
13As days passed on, I became considerably reconciled...03:09
Roberts, William (Reader)
14Now, the utterly unsurmised appearance of Bartleby...03:22
Roberts, William (Reader)
15For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering...03:16
Roberts, William (Reader)
16Revolving all these things, and coupling them...03:46
Roberts, William (Reader)
17It was rather weak in me I confess...03:40
Roberts, William (Reader)
18As he opened the folding-door to retire...03:20
Roberts, William (Reader)
19At length, necessities connected with my business...05:12
Roberts, William (Reader)
20As I had intended, I was rather earlier than usual...03:14
Roberts, William (Reader)
21‘Will you, or will you not, quit me?’03:14
Roberts, William (Reader)
22I endeavored also immediately to occupy myself...04:43
Roberts, William (Reader)
23‘Ere revolving any complicated project, however...02:40
Roberts, William (Reader)
24On the appointed day I engaged carts and men...01:59
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 2
1‘I am very sorry, sir’ said I...03:10
Roberts, William (Reader)
2‘Now one of two things must take place.’02:38
Roberts, William (Reader)
3I answered nothing...03:18
Roberts, William (Reader)
4Being under no disgraceful charge...03:02
Roberts, William (Reader)
5‘How’s this?’ said the grub-man...03:01
Roberts, William (Reader)
6There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history...02:50
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
7What grand irregular thunder, thought I...02:56
Roberts, William (Reader)
8‘Sir,’ said I, bowing politely...03:02
Roberts, William (Reader)
9‘I am a dealer in lightning-rods’, said the stranger...03:09
Roberts, William (Reader)
10’Crash! Only three pulses...’02:51
Roberts, William (Reader)
11There was now a little cessation of the storm...02:39
Roberts, William (Reader)
12‘Tall men in a thunder storm I avoid...’03:48
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
13In the south of Europe...03:39
Roberts, William (Reader)
14At length the holiday of the tower came...03:54
Roberts, William (Reader)
15His felony remitted by the judge...03:48
Roberts, William (Reader)
16But, being questioned...04:11
Roberts, William (Reader)
17His still, Vulcanic face hiding its burning brightness...04:16
Roberts, William (Reader)
18‘Hark! Is that – a footfall above?’03:19
Roberts, William (Reader)
19Slowly, the day drew on...05:04
Roberts, William (Reader)
20From the mystery unavoidably investing it...03:15
Roberts, William (Reader)
21He still bent his efforts...04:22
Roberts, William (Reader)
22It was thought that on the day preceding the fatality...03:37
Roberts, William (Reader)
23But as the pall-bearers entered the cathedral porch...03:29
Roberts, William (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 02:38:38