Length17h 18m
About this audiobook
Published in 1852 as the bewildering follow-up to the then-failed Moby-Dick, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is Herman Melville’s dark doppelgänger. On the surface, young Pierre Glendinning is the golden heir to a proud patrician family, betrothed to the blonde Lucy Tartan. But when a mysterious, dark-haired woman named Isabel claims to be his father’s illegitimate half-sister, Pierre commits an act of catastrophic virtue. To preserve his father’s honor, he fakes a marriage to Isabel, is cast out by his mother, and descends into a Bohemian underworld of penniless writers and mad philosophers. Here, Melville abandons the high seas for the nightmare of the human mind. Stripped of wealth and sanity, Pierre attempts to write a book of truths in a world that demands lies.
A revolutionary foray into modernist psychology, this is not the Melville of whaling adventures. This is a corrosive satire of sentimental Gothic novels, a vicious assault on the American publishing industry, and a harrowing study of the soul destroyed by absolute ideals.
Nearly two centuries later, Pierre remains the kraken of American literature: a beautiful, baffling, and brilliant catastrophe.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics, Mystery and Thriller
Length17 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK I
71II.
2I.
72III.
3II.
73IV.
4III.
74BOOK XII.
5IV.
75I.
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76II.
7VI.
77III.
8BOOK II.
78IV.
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79BOOK XIII.
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80I.
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81II.
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82BOOK XIV.
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14VI.
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16BOOK III.
86BOOK XV.
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94BOOK XVII.
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101BOOK XIX.
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104BOOK XX.
35VII.
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36BOOK VI.
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107BOOK XXI.
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108I.
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111BOOK XXII.
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43BOOK VII.
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116BOOK XXIII.
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121BOOK XXIV.
52BOOK VIII.
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126BOOK XXV.
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60BOOK IX.
130IV.
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132BOOK XXVI.
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