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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre.

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, 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 fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.

Pierre, Or the Ambiguities. Book I. pierre just emerging from his teens. I. 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. 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.

Melville Herman Pierre, Or the Ambiguities - читать книгу онлайн бесплатно. Pierre immaturely attempts a mature book. Tidings from the meadows.

Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. Moby-Dick sold poorly, as did subsequent novels like Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852) and Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855)

Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. He worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839, his experiences spawning his successful early novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Subsequent books, including his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851), sold poorly, and by the 1860s Melville had turned to poetry. Moby-Dick sold poorly, as did subsequent novels like Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852) and Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855). Following the release of The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade in 1857, Melville all but gave up on writing novels. Later Years, Death and Legacy.

Herman Melville Pierre, Or the Ambiguities BOOK I. PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM HIS TEENS I 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

Herman Melville Pierre, Or the Ambiguities BOOK I. PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM . Pierre, as a juvenile author, reconsidered I II book XIX. The church of the apostles I II book XX. PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM HIS TEENS I II III IV V VI BOOK II. Love, delight, and alarm I II III IV V VI VII book III. The presentiment and the verification I II III IV V VI book IV. Retrospective I II III IV V book V. misgivings and preparatives I II III IV V VI VII book VI. Isabel, and the first part of the story of isabel I II III IV V VI book VI.

My own, best, blessed Pierre! Now, could I plant some poniard in me, that my silly ailings should have power to move . So Pierre went up stairs, but paused on the threshold of the open door. He never had entered that chamber but with feelings of a wonderful reverentialness.

My own, best, blessed Pierre! Now, could I plant some poniard in me, that my silly ailings should have power to move thee thus, and pain thee thus. Forgive me, Pierre; thy changed face hath chased the other from me; the fright of thee exceeds all other frights. It does not so haunt me now. Press hard my hand; look hard on me, my love, that its last trace may pass away. The carpet seemed as holy ground. Every chair seemed sanctified by some departed saint, there once seated long ago.

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities book. 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 ranked with The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, and Ulysses.

Pierre, Or the Ambiguities

Pierre, Or the Ambiguities. Author: Herman Melville. A reconstruction of Melville’s original text omits the Pierre as author subplot that was later assimilated and is accompanied by thirty full-color pictures by Maurice Sendak.

Herman Melville's second book, Omoo, begins where his first book, Typee, leaves off. As the author described the book, "It embraces adventures in the South Seas (of a totally different character from 'Typee'. As the author described the book, "It embraces adventures in the South Seas (of a totally different character from 'Typee') and includes an eventful cruise in an English Colonial Whaleman (a Sydney Ship) and a comical residence on the island of Tahiti.