Pierre; or, The Ambiguities by Hershel Parker, Maurice Sendak, Herman Melville

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Hershel Parker, Maurice Sendak, Herman Melville

449 pages first pub 1852 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced

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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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