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Pierre

novel by Melville
Also known as: ā€œPierre; or, The Ambiguitiesā€
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Pierre, novel by Herman Melville, published in 1852. An intensely personal work, it reveals the somber mythology of Melvilleā€™s private life framed in terms of a story of an artist alienated from his society. The artist, Pierre Glendinning, is a wealthy young man. When he discovers that he has an illegitimate half sister, he tries to provide for her by taking her to live in New York City, where they live in poverty as he...

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