Pierre, or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition
by Herman Melville
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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: The Kraken Edition
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- ISBN 10
- 0061180092
- ISBN 13
- 9780061180095
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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