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Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics),Used
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Ambiguities indeed! One long brainmuddling, soulbewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or enda 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 halfcooked 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.' Latterday critics have recognized in the story of Melville's idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimentalGothic novel, and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as uptodate translations by awardwinning translators.
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