MELVILLE: Bartleby the Scrivener / The Lightning-Rod Man / The Bell-Tower (unabridged)

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Bartleby the Scrivener (more info)
Composed by: Emil Schult
William Roberts, reader


1. I am a rather elderly man - 04:05
2. Some time prior to the period at which this little history begins... - 03:12
3. There are many singular coincidences I have known... - 03:03
4. ‘With submission, sir,' said Turkey... - 02:51
5. Among the manifestations of his diseased ambition... - 02:40
6. Though concerning the self-indulgent habits of Turkey... - 03:22
7. Now my original business – that of conveyancer... - 02:09
8. At first Bartleby did an extraordinary quantity of writing... - 03:57
9. A few days after this, Bartleby concluded... - 02:45
10. It is not seldom the case that when a man is browbeaten... - 03:39
11. Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance... - 03:37
12. ‘Bartleby', said I, ‘Ginger Nut is away...' - 02:25
13. As days passed on, I became considerably reconciled... - 03:09
14. Now, the utterly unsurmised appearance of Bartleby... - 03:22
15. For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering... - 03:16
16. Revolving all these things, and coupling them... - 03:46
17. It was rather weak in me I confess... - 03:40
18. As he opened the folding-door to retire... - 03:20
19. At length, necessities connected with my business... - 05:12
20. As I had intended, I was rather earlier than usual... - 03:14
21. ‘Will you, or will you not, quit me?' - 03:14
22. I endeavored also immediately to occupy myself... - 04:43
23. ‘Ere revolving any complicated project, however... - 02:40
24. On the appointed day I engaged carts and men... - 01:59

The Lightning-Rod Man (more info)
Composed by: Emil Schult
William Roberts, reader


1. What grand irregular thunder, thought I... - 02:56
2. ‘Sir,' said I, bowing politely... - 03:02
3. ‘I am a dealer in lightning-rods', said the stranger... - 03:09
4. 'Crash! Only three pulses...' - 02:51
5. There was now a little cessation of the storm... - 02:39
6. ‘Tall men in a thunder storm I avoid...' - 03:48


Bartleby the Scrivener (more info)
Composed by: Emil Schult
William Roberts, reader


7. ‘I am very sorry, sir' said I... - 03:10
8. ‘Now one of two things must take place.' - 02:38
9. I answered nothing... - 03:18
10. Being under no disgraceful charge... - 03:02
11. ‘How's this?' said the grub-man... - 03:01
12. There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history... - 02:50


The Bell-Tower (more info)
Composed by: Emil Schult
William Roberts, reader


13. In the south of Europe... - 03:39
14. At length the holiday of the tower came... - 03:54
15. His felony remitted by the judge... - 03:48
16. But, being questioned... - 04:11
17. His still, Vulcanic face hiding its burning brightness... - 04:16
18. ‘Hark! Is that – a footfall above?' - 03:19
19. Slowly, the day drew on... - 05:04
20. From the mystery unavoidably investing it... - 03:15
21. He still bent his efforts... - 04:22
22. It was thought that on the day preceding the fatality... - 03:37
23. But as the pall-bearers entered the cathedral porch... - 03:29

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