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Pierre, or the Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition Hardcover - 1972 - 1st Edition
by Herman Melville; Harrison Hayford (Editor); G. Thomas Tanselle (Editor)
Summary
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: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
- Author Herman Melville; Harrison Hayford (Editor); G. Thomas Tanselle (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 435
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Northwestern University Press, Evanston
- Date February 1, 1972
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780810102668 / 0810102668
- Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.4 in (24.13 x 16.76 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 72179121
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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