Description: Pierre : Or the Ambiguities, Paperback by Melville, Herman, ISBN 1542634733, ISBN-13 9781542634731, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a novel, the seventh book, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancee; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister. According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville "purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel" rather than to experiment with the novel and incidentally working some personal experiences into after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster. Reviewers universally condemned both its morals and its style. Critics have more recently shown greater sympathy, seeing it as a "psychological novel -- a study of the moods, thought processes, and perceptions of his hero
Price: 22.8 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2025-02-02T07:08:12.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Pierre, or the Ambiguities (1852) Novel by Herman Melville (Book 1 , and Book 2)
Number of Pages: 254 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: General
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 22.6 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Herman. Melville
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
