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Pierre or, the Ambiguities
de Herman Melville
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Acceptable
- Librería
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Harper and Brothers, 1855. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair+ 3/4 leather hardcover. ORIGINAL 1855 PRINTING. Ex-Library with usual markings (bookplate on inside front cover and remnants of previously affixed card folder on inside rear cover). PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARKED. Marbled page edges. Covers (3/4 leather with brown cloth and raised bands on spine) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine heavily scuffed with edge tears. Marbled cover turn-ins with the scuffing on front and rear inside covers and front end paper. Front hinge loosening slightly but binding still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Sinopsis
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.
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- Librería
- Redux Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 51512210060
- Título
- Pierre or, the Ambiguities
- Autor
- Herman Melville
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Harper and Brothers
- Fecha de publicación
- 1855
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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Sobre el vendedor
Redux Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Sobre Redux Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Fair+
- Used to describe a book in slightly better than Fair condition. Fair describes "a worn book that has complete text pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
