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Pierre Or The Ambiguities

Pierre Or The Ambiguities

Melville, Herman

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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1419141600
ISBN13: 9781419141607
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.83 Width: 7.48 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
Pierre Or The Ambiguities is a novel written by Herman Melville, first published in 1852. The book tells the story of Pierre Glendinning, a young man from a wealthy and respected family who is struggling to find his place in the world. Pierre is torn between his love for his cousin, Lucy, and his desire to break free from the constraints of his privileged upbringing.As the story unfolds, Pierre's relationships with those around him become increasingly complex and ambiguous. He is drawn to a mysterious woman named Isabel, who seems to embody all of his deepest desires and fears. Meanwhile, his relationship with Lucy becomes strained as he becomes more and more distant from her.Throughout the book, Melville explores themes of identity, morality, and the nature of human relationships. He challenges traditional notions of love, family, and social hierarchy, and offers a nuanced and complex portrayal of the human experience.Pierre Or The Ambiguities has been praised for its lyrical prose and its exploration of complex psychological themes. It is considered one of Melville's most challenging and rewarding works, and continues to be studied and debated by scholars and readers alike.By some strange arts, Isabel's wonderful story might have been, some way, and for some cause, forged for her, in her childhood, and craftily impressed upon her youthful mind; which so--like a slight mark in a young tree--and now enlargingly grown with her growth, till it had become this immense staring marvel. Tested by any thing real, practical, and reasonable, what less probable, for instance, than that fancied crossing of the sea in her childhood, when upon Pierre's subsequent questioning of her, she did not even know that the sea was salt.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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