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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)
|  | 1 | I am a rather elderly man | 04:05 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 2 | Some time prior to the period at which this little history begins... | 03:12 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 3 | There are many singular coincidences I have known... | 03:03 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 4 | ‘With submission, sir,’ said Turkey... | 02:51 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 5 | Among the manifestations of his diseased ambition... | 02:40 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 6 | Though concerning the self-indulgent habits of Turkey... | 03:22 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 7 | Now my original business – that of conveyancer... | 02:09 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 8 | At first Bartleby did an extraordinary quantity of writing... | 03:57 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 9 | A few days after this, Bartleby concluded... | 02:45 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 10 | It is not seldom the case that when a man is browbeaten... | 03:39 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 11 | Nothing 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)
| | 13 | As days passed on, I became considerably reconciled... | 03:09 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 14 | Now, the utterly unsurmised appearance of Bartleby... | 03:22 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 15 | For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering... | 03:16 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 16 | Revolving all these things, and coupling them... | 03:46 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 17 | It was rather weak in me I confess... | 03:40 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 18 | As he opened the folding-door to retire... | 03:20 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 19 | At length, necessities connected with my business... | 05:12 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 20 | As 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)
| | 22 | I endeavored also immediately to occupy myself... | 04:43 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 23 | ‘Ere revolving any complicated project, however... | 02:40 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 24 | On 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)
| | 3 | I answered nothing... | 03:18 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 4 | Being under no disgraceful charge... | 03:02 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 5 | ‘How’s this?’ said the grub-man... | 03:01 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 6 | There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history... | 02:50 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 7 | What 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)
| | 11 | There 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)
| | 13 | In the south of Europe... | 03:39 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 14 | At length the holiday of the tower came... | 03:54 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 15 | His felony remitted by the judge... | 03:48 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 16 | But, being questioned... | 04:11 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 17 | His still, Vulcanic face hiding its burning brightness... | 04:16 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 18 | ‘Hark! Is that – a footfall above?’ | 03:19 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 19 | Slowly, the day drew on... | 05:04 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 20 | From the mystery unavoidably investing it... | 03:15 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 21 | He still bent his efforts... | 04:22 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 22 | It was thought that on the day preceding the fatality... | 03:37 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
| | 23 | But as the pall-bearers entered the cathedral porch... | 03:29 |
Roberts, William (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 02:38:38