Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819-1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. ( Summary by Wikipedia )