Presents a selection of later work by Herman Melville, including novels, short stories, and uncollected prose such as reviews, magazine articles, and comic sketches.
Pierre : or, Ambiguities
Pierre. or the ambiguities
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Ambiguities
or, The ambiguities
Pierre ou les ambiguités = Pierre, or the ambiguities
Pierre or the ambiguities, Israel Potter, The piazza tales, The confidence-man, Uncollected prose billy Budd, sailor
Melville
Pierre, or, The ambiguities
Pierre ou les Ambiguïtés : ["Pierre or the Ambiguities"]. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. Traduit de l'anglais par Pierre Leyris
Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor
Pierre ; Israel Potter ; The confidence-man ; Tales ; and, Billy Budd
Pierre or, The ambiguities : his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : an inside narrative
Pierre; or, the ambiguities
'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 Jack o'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." Latter-day critics have recognized in the story of Melville's idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental-Gothic novel, and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.
Pierre : the ambiguities
This Kraken Edition of Pierre, or The Ambiguities is a reconstruction of the text that Melville delivered to Harper & Brothers early in January 1852, just as some of the most devastating reviews of Moby-Dick were appearing. The Harper brothers apparently decided that Pierre was even more outrageous than Moby-Dick and tried to avoid publishing it by offering Melville less than half the royalties they had paid for his previous books. Accepting the humiliating contract, Melville took a self-destructive revenge. After Book XVI, he interpolated a new section on "Young America in Literature," in which he arbitrarily announced that his hero, Pierre, had been a juvenile author. Melville proceeded to add an intrusive "Pierre as author" sub-plot, disparaging American literary life and the world of publishing, which he left unassimilated into the book he had first completed.
Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Domestic fiction
This dark, controversial novel concerns a young writer's descent into poverty and depravity.
Melville's gothic romance about a young man, financially secure and engaged to be married, who abandons all his plans when he finds out that he has an illegitmate sister who has been shunned by society and cast out.
Pierre; or, The ambiguities
Pierre : or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor
Pierre ou les ambiguités (Pierre or the ambiguities), roman
Pierre or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Pierre or the ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Pierre, or, The Ambiguities ; Israel Potter ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor
Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an insider narrative)
Pierre or, the ambiguities
Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945
Pierre or, The Ambiguities : [novels and tales]. Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile / Herman Melville
Billy Budd, sailor
L'évocation d'un trio incestueux dans le New York du XIXe siècle fit scandale et causa beaucoup de tort à l'auteur en Amérique. Le thème fut repris par de nombreux romanciers.
Herman Melville Selections
Selections
Pierre
The story of an idealistic young hero, told as a satire of sentimental-Gothic novels.
Pierre, Israel Potter, The piazza tales, The confidence man, uncollected prose, Billy Budd, sailor
Fiction
Pierre ; Israel Potter ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor
Israel Potter
Confidence-man
Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Psychological fiction
Electronic books
Pierre, or: the ambiguities
Pierre Israel Potter
Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza tales, The confidence-man, uncollected prose, Billy Budd, Sailor
Pierre : or, the ambiguities
Pierre or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza Tales ; The Confidence Man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Pierre : or, The ambiguities
Pierre or The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor
Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter
Pierre ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile, or, The ambiguities ; Billy Bud, sailor : an inside narrative ; Uncollected prose ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; The piazza tales
Pierre, or the ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Pierre : or the ambiguities
Pierre, Israel Potter, The confidence-man, Tales & Billy Budd
Pierre or, The Ambiguities. Israel Potter [u.a.]
Selections. 1984
Pierre or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter, his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor
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Pierre ; or, The ambiguities
Pierre or, The ambiguities
Pierre or, The ambiguities ;Israel Potter ;The piazza tales ;The confidence-man ;Uncollected prose ;Billy Budd, sailor : his fifty years of exile : his masquerade : (an inside narrative)
Pierre : ou les Ambiguïtés (Pierre, or the Ambiguities), roman, traduit de l'anglais par Pierre Leyris
Pierre, or, The ambiguities : Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his ma
Pierre or The ambiguities ; Isarael Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billu Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Pierre, or the ambiguities
Pierre, or, The ambiguities Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Pierre ; Israel Potter ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man ; Uncollected prose ; and Billy Budd, sailor
Pierre or The Ambiquities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile
Pierre, Israel Potter, The confidence-man, Tales and Billy Budd
Pierre ou les ambiguïtes. Pierre, or the ambiguities. Roman
The story of an idealistic young hero, told as a satire of sentimental-Gothic novels. Ooriginally published in 1852.
Pierre, or The ambiguities
Billy Budd, sailor : an inside narrative
Pierre : or, The ambiguities. Israel Potter. The Piazza tales. The confidence-man. Uncollected Prose. Billy Budd. Herman Melville. [Ed. by Harrison Hayford]
Vol. 24.
Autobiographical fiction
Pierre, or, The Ambiguities ; Israel Potter : His Fifty Years Of Exile ; The Piazza Tales ; The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade
Pierre ; Israel Potter ; The Piazza Tales ; The Confidence-Man ; Uncol lected prose ; Billy Budd, Sailor
Piazza tales
Pierre or the ambiguities : Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
Pierre : or The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative)
Male authors Family relationships Fiction.