Pierre; or The Ambiguities (Annotated)

by Herman Melville

Overview

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a book, the seventh novel, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendenning; his widowed mother; Glendenning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancee; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.

This edition has been formatted for your NOOK, with an active table of contents. It has also been annotated, with extensive additional information about the story and Herman Melville, including an overview, plot, publication history, critical response, adaptations, biographical and bibliographical information.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151216005
Publisher:	Bronson Tweed Publishing
Publication date:	10/05/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	480 KB

About the Author

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he was almost forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid transformation. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading", scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's".

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15