Pierre, or The Ambiguities (1852) NOVEL by Herman Melville ( Book 1, and Book 2 ) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542634731)

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 it. Coming 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

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1542634733
ISBN-13: 9781542634731
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2017
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.53d