Pierre
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Pierre

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Pierre

About this book

Published in 1852 as the bewildering follow-up to the then-failed Moby-Dick, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is Herman Melville's dark doppelgänger. On the surface, young Pierre Glendinning is the golden heir to a proud patrician family, betrothed to the blonde Lucy Tartan. But when a mysterious, dark-haired woman named Isabel claims to be his father's illegitimate half-sister, Pierre commits an act of catastrophic virtue. To preserve his father's honor, he fakes a marriage to Isabel, is cast out by his mother, and descends into a Bohemian underworld of penniless writers and mad philosophers. Here, Melville abandons the high seas for the nightmare of the human mind. Stripped of wealth and sanity, Pierre attempts to write a book of truths in a world that demands lies. A revolutionary foray into modernist psychology, this is not the Melville of whaling adventures. This is a corrosive satire of sentimental Gothic novels, a vicious assault on the American publishing industry, and a harrowing study of the soul destroyed by absolute ideals. Nearly two centuries later, Pierre remains the kraken of American literature: a beautiful, baffling, and brilliant catastrophe.

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Information

Publisher
Cactus
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9791256796571
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. BOOK I
  2. I.
  3. II.
  4. III.
  5. IV.
  6. V.
  7. VI.
  8. BOOK II.
  9. I.
  10. II.
  11. III.
  12. IV.
  13. V.
  14. VI.
  15. VII.
  16. BOOK III.
  17. I.
  18. II.
  19. III.
  20. IV.
  21. V.
  22. VI.
  23. BOOK IV.
  24. I.
  25. II.
  26. III.
  27. IV.
  28. V.
  29. BOOK V.
  30. I.
  31. II.
  32. III.
  33. IV.
  34. V.
  35. VII.
  36. BOOK VI.
  37. I.
  38. II.
  39. III.
  40. IV.
  41. V.
  42. VI.
  43. BOOK VII.
  44. I.
  45. II.
  46. III.
  47. IV.
  48. V.
  49. VI.
  50. VII.
  51. VIII.
  52. BOOK VIII.
  53. I.
  54. II.
  55. III.
  56. IV.
  57. V.
  58. VI.
  59. VII.
  60. BOOK IX.
  61. I.
  62. II.
  63. III.
  64. IV.
  65. BOOK X.
  66. I.
  67. II.
  68. III.
  69. BOOK XI.
  70. I.
  71. II.
  72. III.
  73. IV.
  74. BOOK XII.
  75. I.
  76. II.
  77. III.
  78. IV.
  79. BOOK XIII.
  80. I.
  81. II.
  82. BOOK XIV.
  83. I.
  84. II.
  85. III.
  86. BOOK XV.
  87. I.
  88. II.
  89. III.
  90. BOOK XVI.
  91. I.
  92. II.
  93. III.
  94. BOOK XVII.
  95. I.
  96. II.
  97. III.
  98. BOOK XVIII.
  99. I.
  100. II.
  101. BOOK XIX.
  102. I.
  103. II.
  104. BOOK XX.
  105. I.
  106. II.
  107. BOOK XXI.
  108. I.
  109. II.
  110. III.
  111. BOOK XXII.
  112. I.
  113. II.
  114. III.
  115. IV.
  116. BOOK XXIII.
  117. I.
  118. II.
  119. III.
  120. IV.
  121. BOOK XXIV.
  122. I.
  123. II.
  124. III.
  125. IV.
  126. BOOK XXV.
  127. I.
  128. II.
  129. III.
  130. IV.
  131. V.
  132. BOOK XXVI.
  133. I.
  134. II.
  135. III.
  136. IV.
  137. V.
  138. VI.
  139. VII.

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