Bartleby, the Scrivener is a famous short story by Herman Melville, first published in 1853, about a Wall Street lawyer who hires a quiet, efficient copyist named Bartleby, who gradually begins to refuse all work with the phrase, “I would prefer not to,” leading to his tragic isolation and demise. The story explores themes of […]
Apprentice House Publishing USA – Novels, SS, Literary Fiction, General Non-fiction apprenticehouse.com apprenticehouse@loyola.edu Apprentice House is the nation’s first entirely student-managed book publisher. Apprentice House is an indie publisher, not a university press. As a program within the Communication and Media Department at Loyola University Maryland, it is driven by student work conducted in four […]
Rip Van Wrinkle by Washington Irving needs no introduction. It is one of the most well-known stories ever written, and has been parodied more times than years Rip was asleep. For any of you who have been sleeping longer than Rip, let’s summarize the plot again: “Rip Van Winkle” is an 1819 short story by […]
