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
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (3.4K)
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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
26III.
2I.
27IV.
3II.
28V.
4III.
29BOOK V.
5IV.
30I.
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6V.
31II.
7VI.
32III.
8BOOK II.
33IV.
9I.
34V.
10II.
35VII.
11III.
36BOOK VI.
12IV.
37I.
13V.
38II.
14VI.
39III.
15VII.
40IV.
16BOOK III.
41V.
17I.
42VI.
18II.
43BOOK VII.
19III.
44I.
20IV.
45II.
21V.
46III.
22VI.
47IV.
23BOOK IV.
48V.
24I.
49VI.
25II.
50VII.
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