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A Brief Introduction:
Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
An unrepentant romance written in an age of realism; a Shakespearean tragedy wrapped in the clothes of the American Gothic; a novel of ambiguities presented to a critical world obsessed with moral purity, Pierre is a fundamentally antagonistic work....
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