Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics)
by Melville,Herman
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140434844
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434842
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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
- Colorado's Used Bookstore, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 250669
- Title
- Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics)
- Author
- Melville,Herman
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140434844
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434842
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996/01/01 00:00:00.000
- Pages
- 416
- Keywords
- Melville,Herman Pierre: Or The Ambiguities
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