Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in Bartleby, the Scrivener

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“Bartleby, the Scrivener” belongs to the short story genre or, more specifically, the novella genre. Though the distinctions are somewhat blurry, many scholars consider a classic short story to be a work of fiction between 1,000 to 10,000 words and a novella (still within the category of short story) to be between 10,000 to 40,000 words. In other words, a novella is a longer version of a short story.