Who wrote the 1850s story Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, which depicted the alienation of working within the confines of the financial market?

Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is arguably the author's most famous short story, and depicts an unnamed lawyer with offices on Wall Street, who describes himself as doing "a snug business among rich men's bonds and mortgages and title-deeds". It's often considered an early "transcendental" or "absurdist" story on par with the likes of Kafka or Gogol.

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