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Book synopsis

'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jacko 'the' lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the "New York Herald" when "Pierre" was first published in 1852, with most contemporary reviewers joining in the general condemnation: 'a dead failure,' 'this crazy rigmarole,' and "a literary mare's nest."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Pierre
• Author: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780140434842
• ISBN: 0140434844
• ID: 04024069
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 332 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. May 1996

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