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Pierre: Or the Ambiguities (Signet Classical Books)

By Herman Melville

Pierre: Or the Ambiguities (Signet Classical Books) Books

Pierre: Or the Ambiguities (Signet Classical Books)

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Melville, Herman. Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities. With a Foreword by Lawrance Thompson. New York, The New American Library, 1964. 11 x 18cm. (21), 408 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, including mild foxing to edges. Inscribed with previous owner's name. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. [A Signet Classic, No. CT271]. This was Melville's 1852 follow-up to the then flop Moby Dick. '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. [Penguin Books]
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
408
Publication Date:
1964
Publisher:
New American Library
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0451002733
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