Burgundy cloth hardcover boards with gilt decoration on front cover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Former Owner's stamp on lower right on half titiel page. Otherwise in new condition.

DJ has only slight wear on edge margins. DJ is not price clipped.

Melville scholar Hershel Parker has long beleived that the pschological stature of 'Moby Dick' Could best be understood in light of the original, shorter version of Pierre. In Parker's opinion, "...surely the finest psychological novel anyone had yet written in English.". 'Moby Dick' and the reconstituted 'Pierre' are at last revealed as completely interlinked companion studies of the moods of thought, the Typee and Omoo of depth psychology.

Maurice Sendak, as illustrator, has given us a provocative interpretation of Melville's study of moral and mental ambiguities.

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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: Bonnie Lane Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12-06-2023-01
Title: Pierre, or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition
Author: Herman Melville
Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Format/Binding: Tight, as new
Book Condition: Used - VG+
Jacket Condition: VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, thus, 1995
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0061180092
ISBN 13: 9780061180095
Publisher: Harper
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1995
Pages: 449
Size: 7 5/8" x 5 9/16"
Keywords: Fiction, Classics, American Literature, Melville, Sendak

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