Pierre; or The Ambiguities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781497562813)

THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have ceased to grow; and all Nature, as if suddenly become conscious of her own profound mystery, and feeling no refuge from it but silence, sinks into this wonderful and indescribable repose. Such was the morning in June, when, issuing from the embowered and high-gabled old home of his fathers, Pierre, dewily refreshed and spiritualized by sleep, gayly entered the long, wide, elm-arched street of the village, and half unconsciously bent his steps toward a cottage, which peeped into view near the end of the vista.

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1497562813
ISBN-13: 9781497562813
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2014
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.39d