Pierre Or the Ambiguities
by Melville, Herman
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/NVG
- Seller
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Glastonbury, Connecticut, 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
- UnCommon Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015370
- Title
- Pierre Or the Ambiguities
- Author
- Melville, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- NVG
- Edition
- First Edition This Publisher
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
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