Pierre Or The Ambiguities
Original title: Pierre, or the Ambiguities
earliest edition we have, 1852 Horse's Mouth, 2018 paperback 256 pages
The writings of Herman Melville,
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...
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