Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by George Inness, Edward Mitchell Bannister and Albert Bierstadt. A young man of a great Hudson valley family discovers he has a half-sister and destroys his own life acknowledging her. Melville wrote it straight after Moby-Dick, in fury at his reception; a reviewer's headline read Herman Melville Crazy, and his standing with the reading public never recovered. This edition binds 56 plates of painting with the text, among them Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand and Edward Mitchell Bannister, with subjects from View of Florence to Haymaking.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by George Inness, Edward Mitchell Bannister and Albert Bierstadt. A young man of a great Hudson valley family discovers he has a half-sister and destroys his own life acknowledging her. Melville wrote it straight after Moby-Dick, in fury at his re...
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Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American writer born in New York City. He sailed as a whaler and a naval seaman, deserted in the Marquesas, wrote six books in six years and then spent nineteen years as a customs inspector in obscurity. His works include Typee, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Billy Budd.
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American writer born in New York City. He sailed as a whaler and a naval seaman, deserted in the Marquesas, wrote six books in six years and then spent nineteen years as a customs inspector in obscurity. His works include Typee, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Billy Budd.
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