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by: Herman Melville See Larger Image List Price: $18.00 Our Price: $14.58 You Save: $3.42 (19%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $3.51 Third Party New Price: $12.52 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780810114128 ISBN: 0810114127 Label: Northwestern University Press Manufacturer: Northwestern University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 435 Publication Date: October 25, 1995 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Sales Rank: 370409 Studio: Northwestern University Press Related Items: Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics) Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the Merchant Service (Penguin English Library) The Confidence Man (Norton Critical Editions) Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: HarperCollins is proud to present this controversial masterpiece of American literature, now restored to its original form and illuminated with 30 full-color pictures by Maurice Sendak. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Satirical melodrama Of all the colics, save me from the melloncholics! Says the landlord of the Black Swan, summing up his lack of understanding of young Master Pierre. I am sure most readers will agree with him. Could Melville really have expected to earn money with this hotchpotch of styles in a plot that is full of contradictory elements? Hard to believe. The melodrama in a nutshell: a 19 y old idle semi-orphaned princeling of New England aristocracy, with dubiously close ties to overbearing mother ... Read More Rating: - Melville's Landlocked Novel of Manners It's hard to enjoy Pierre. The style is reminiscent of the effect of perfume on a seasick sailor. I can't say that I enjoyed it myself, nor can I make much of a case for its significance in a world rather well-stocked with significant books. I'd urge any reader to use her/his reading lifetime judiciously by 'perusing' all of Melville's other novels and tales first. But there are some people who admire Pierre; the review here on Amazon, by D. Cloyce Smith, makes as good a case for the novel as any I've ... Read More Rating: - Ambiguities indeed! I found this to be a much better Book Club selection than just a classic read. It is the tragic story of a young man who is naive in the world and his life quickly dissipates into ruin. Herman Melville published this novel a year after Moby Dick. I would not necessarily recommend it, but I thought it was an interesting work, especially if you are interested in the career of Melville. Rating: - Rich Chocolaty Goodness The thing about Bartleby, the Scrivener is that it makes you want to read everything else Melville wrote. Right now I'm about half way through Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and think it an immensely satisfying layer cake so far. When I'm finished I hope to go fishing. Apropos of which, great bolshy yarblockos to Clifton Fadiman, who wrote the following paragraph in an introduction to Moby Dick round about 1941: "A pessimism as profound as Melville's, if not pathological--and his was not--can ... Read More Rating: - Adultery, incest, madness, murder, and suicide--all in "a narrative nervous breakdown" "Pierre" is perhaps Melville's most difficult and challenging novel--and that's saying something. Despairing over his inability to support his family, Melville began writing a book designed to be popular--a counterpoint to the sensational novels written and read by contemporary women, using inspiration from French romances and even from Hawthorne's novels. Wavering between psychological melodrama and social satire, Melville ultimately increased the book's length by half again, incorporating his rage against ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Melville, Herman - ( M ) - Authors, A-Z - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General Melville, Herman - ( M ) - Authors, A-Z - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - Paperback Melville, Herman - ( M ) - Authors, A-Z - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS Classics - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS