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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Pierre, or, the ambiguities. New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by the Viking Press, c1984 (OCoLC)559694799 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Herman Melville |
| ISBN: | 0940450240 9780940450240 |
| OCLC Number: | 10777772 |
| Description: | 1478 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Pierre or, The Ambiquities -- Israel Potter, his fifty years of exile -- The Piazza tales -- The confidence-man, his masquerade -- Uncollected prose -- ARTICLES AND REVIEWS -- Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack" -- Mr Parkman's Tour -- Cooper's new novel -- A thought on book-binding -- Hawthorne and his mosses -- TALES -- Fragments from a writing desk -- The happy failure -- The fiddler -- Cock-a-doodle-doo! -- Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs -- The two temples -- The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids -- Jimmy Rose -- The 'Gees -- I and my chimney -- The apple-tree table -- Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative). |
| Series Title: | The Library of America. |
| Other Titles: | Pierre. Israel Potter. Piazza tales. Confidence-man. Billy Budd, sailor. Selections. |
| Responsibility: | Herman Melville. |
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