Pierre: or the Ambiguities
by Herman Melville
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o'the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the New York Herald when Pierre was first published in 1852, with most contemporary reviewers joining in the general condemnation: 'a dead failure,' 'this crazy rigmarole,' and "a literary mare's nest." Latter-day critics have recognized in the story of Melville's idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental-Gothic novel, and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.
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- Bookseller
- Jennie Gottschalk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7518
- Title
- Pierre: or the Ambiguities
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 504
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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