Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities Paperback - 1996
by Herman Melville; Introduction by William Spengemann; Notes by William Spengemann
Summary
From the rear cover
"Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soulbewildering 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' th'-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. As William Spengemann writes in his introduction to this edition, "For anyone who, being aware of the culture of modernity, is curious about its origins, Pierre ranks with Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ' Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, and the poems of Emily Dickinson as one of the privileged places where the dead past can be seen giving way inexorably to the living present".
Details
- Title Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities
- Author Herman Melville; Introduction by William Spengemann; Notes by William Spengemann
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1996-01-01
- ISBN 9780140434842 / 0140434844
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95032700
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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