This is somewhat short to be a “novella” but it seems to be more than a short story.  Bartleby is a copier for Melville’s unnamed 1st person protagonist, an attorney. who works with real estate/Wall Street types. I usually read short stories and novellas in anthologies, but this was on a list of novellas (and it is sometimes called due to the complexity) and I’d always kind of wanted to read it. Because of the date, I think of it more like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness or something by Dickens (look at the date).

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Bartleby the Scrivener 
by Herman Melville
1853 
Read by Stefan Rudniki  1h 48m
(Read and listened) 

Bartleby is strange creature about whom it seems not much is known – he’s almost anonymous when he’s talking to you. He shows up at Lawyer’s office after he sees an advertisement for employment. Lawyer hires him. Too bad, Lawyer, you are now stuck with him. Bartleby starts making copies of letters and so on but after a number of weeks, he decides he “would prefer not to” do that.

The two characters with any depth at all, Bartleby and his unnamed boss, the Lawyer, are fascin-ating and drawn with great attention to detail, but at some point both of them are pathetic, really.  As it turns out, Bartleby “prefers not to” much of anything while Lawyer would prefer he left and seeks ideas as to how to get this to happen.

This may be a bit short for a novella, but I’ve always kind of wanted to read it.

Here’s a fine article/review – *with annotations* about what Melville was doing.
https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/10/herman_melville_s_bartleby_the_scrivener_an_interactive_annotated_text.html