Pierre or The Ambiguities (Signet classics)
by HERMAN MELVILLE
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- 9780451518965
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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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- Title
- Pierre or The Ambiguities (Signet classics)
- Author
- HERMAN MELVILLE
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good - Cash
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0451518969
- ISBN 13
- 9780451518965
- Publisher
- New Amer Library (Mm)
- Place of Publication
- E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- November 1964
- Pages
- 1
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