Pierre, Or The Ambiguities

Pierre, or The Ambiguities

by Herman Melville

Pierre Glendinning is a young man from a wealthy family who is engaged to be married to Lucy Tartan. However, when he meets Isabel Banford, a mysterious woman who claims to be his illegitimate sister, his life is turned upside down. Pierre becomes obsessed with Isabel and begins to question everything he thought he knew about himself and his family.

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Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, T...

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