PIERRE; ISRAEL POTTER; THE PIAZZA TALES; THE CONFIDENCE MAN; UNCOLLECTED PROSE; BILLY BUDD, SAILOR
by Melville, Herman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0940450240
- ISBN 13
- 9780940450240
- Seller
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Seneca, Pennsylvania, 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
- Russ States (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23-1296
- Title
- PIERRE; ISRAEL POTTER; THE PIAZZA TALES; THE CONFIDENCE MAN; UNCOLLECTED PROSE; BILLY BUDD, SAILOR
- Author
- Melville, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0940450240
- ISBN 13
- 9780940450240
- Publisher
- The Library of America
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction, American, Literature, Melville, Prose, Writings
Terms of Sale
Russ States
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