Pierre; or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Herman Melville with Hershel Parker (Contributor), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)

449 pages hardcover 1852

11 editions

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Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publisher, Pierre has since struck critics as modern in its psychological probings and literary technique—fit, as Carl Van Vechten said in 1922, to be ran...

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