Pierre: Or the Ambiguities (Penguin Classics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Pierre: Or the Ambiguities (Penguin Classics) Book

'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 theRead More

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  • Waterstones

    Contains one long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity, like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end - a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jacko 'the' lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempe

  • 0140434844
  • 9780140434842
  • Herman Melville
  • 30 May 1996
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416
  • New Ed
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