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Pierre, or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition
de Herman Melville
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0061180092
- ISBN 13
- 9780061180095
- Librería
-
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Burgundy cloth hardcover boards with gilt decoration on front cover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Former Owner's stamp on lower right on half titiel page. Otherwise in new condition.
DJ has only slight wear on edge margins. DJ is not price clipped.
Melville scholar Hershel Parker has long beleived that the pschological stature of 'Moby Dick' Could best be understood in light of the original, shorter version of Pierre. In Parker's opinion, "...surely the finest psychological novel anyone had yet written in English.". 'Moby Dick' and the reconstituted 'Pierre' are at last revealed as completely interlinked companion studies of the moods of thought, the Typee and Omoo of depth psychology.
Maurice Sendak, as illustrator, has given us a provocative interpretation of Melville's study of moral and mental ambiguities.
Mylar protected.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Bonnie Lane Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 12-06-2023-01
- Título
- Pierre, or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition
- Autor
- Herman Melville
- Ilustrador
- Maurice Sendak
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tight, as new
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- VG+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, thus, 1995
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0061180092
- ISBN 13
- 9780061180095
- Editorial
- Harper
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1995
- Páginas
- 449
- Tamaño
- 7 5/8" x 5 9/16"
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Classics, American Literature, Melville, Sendak
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Bonnie Lane Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2022
Roseburg, Oregon
Sobre Bonnie Lane Books
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