Pierre

by Herman Melville

Overview

Pierre
Herman Melville, american novelist, poet, and writer of short stories (1819-1891)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- DEDICATION
-03- PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM HIS TEENS
-04- LOVE, DELIGHT, AND ALARM
-05- THE PRESENTIMENT AND THE VERIFICATION
-06- RETROSPECTIVE
-07- MISGIVINGS AND PREPARATIONS
-08- ISABEL AND THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY OF ISABEL
-09- INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN PIERRE'S TWO INTERVIEWS WITH ISABEL AT THE FARM-HOUSE
-10- THE SECOND INTERVIEW AT THE FARM-HOUSE
-11- MORE LIGHT AND THE GLOOM OF THAT LIGHT. MORE GLOOM, AND THE LIGHT OF THAT GLOOM
-12- THE UNPRECEDENTED FINAL RESOLUTION OF PIERRE
-13- HE CROSSES THE RUBICON
-14- ISABEL, MRS. GLENDINNING - THE PORTRAIT AND LUCY
-15- THEY DEPART THE MEADOWS
-16- THE JOURNEY AND THE PAMPHLET
-17- THE COUSINS
-18- FIRST NIGHT OF THEIR ARRIVAL IN THE CITY
-19- YOUNG AMERICA IN LITERATURE
-20- PIERRE, AS A JUVENILE AUTHOR, RECONSIDERED
-21- THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES
-22- CHARLIE MILLTHORPE
-23- PIERRE IMMATURELY ATTEMPTS A MATURE WORK
-24- THE FLOWER-CURTAIN LIFTED FROM BEFORE A TROPICAL AUTHOR, WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL FLESH-BRUSH PHILOSOPHY.
-25- A LETTER FOR PIERRE. ISABEL. ARRIVAL OF LUCY'S EASEL AND TRUNKS AT THE APOSTLES'
-26- LUCY AT THE APOSTLES
-27- LUCY, ISABEL, AND PIERRE. PIERRE AT HIS BOOK. ENCELADUS
-28- A WALK - A FOREIGN PORTRAIT, A SAIL AND THE END

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150465749
Publisher:	The Perfect Library
Publication date:	10/13/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	660 KB

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

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