Pierre: Or the Ambiguities (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Pierre Contains one long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity, like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end - a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jacko 'the' lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 30 May 1996
- Format: Paperback 416 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Adventure
- ISBN 13: 9780140434842 ISBN 10: 0140434844
- Sales rank: 174,670
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Full description for Pierre
'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 Jacko '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."
