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Pierre (Or, the Ambiguities) (Paperback)
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Pierre (Or, the Ambiguities) (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R346
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Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) is a novel by American writer
Herman Melville. Published the year after Moby-Dick-a critical and
commercial failure-Pierre: or, The Ambiguities is a psychological
novel in the tradition of Gothic fiction. Melville struggled to
find a publisher who would pay him in advance for the book, and its
appearance prompted widespread ridicule and condemnation in the
press, with some critics claiming that Melville himself had gone
mad. The novel plunged Melville deeper into financial ruin, and all
but ensured that his next novels, Israel Potter and The
Confidence-Man, would be his last. Pierre Glendinning Jr. is a
nineteen-year-old heir who lives with his widowed mother at their
family manor in upstate New York. Engaged to the beautiful and
respectable Lucy Tartan, Pierre stands to inherit-with his mother's
approval-a life of comfort and wealth. When he meets a young woman
named Isabel Banford, his father's illegitimate daughter, Pierre
devises a plan he believes will solve everyone's problems: he will
marry Isabel, who will inherit her share of their father's wealth,
thereby preserving his father's honor and sparing his mother the
embarrassment of her husband's infidelity. Pierre marries Isabel in
secret, and when he tells his mother is thrown out of the house and
cut off from his family for good. He moves with Isabel to New York
City, where he hopes to make a life for himself as a writer, but
the sins of the past refuse to let him rest as he wrestles with his
choices and discovers the true nature of his seemingly good
intentions. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Herman Melville's Pierre: or,
The Ambiguities is a classic of American literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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