Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

by Herman Melville

Table of Contents

Dedication

Book I - Pierre Just Emerging from His Teens

Book II - Love, Delight, and Alarm

Book III - The Presentiment and the Verification

Book IV - Retrospective

Book V - Misgivings and Preparatives

Book VI - Isabel, and the First Part of the Story of Isabel

Book VII - Intermediate Between Pierre's Two Interviews with Isabel at the Farm-House

Book VIII - The Second Interview, and the Second Part of the Story of Isabel

Book IX - More Light, and the Gloom of That Light

Book X - The Unprecedented Final Resolution of Pierre

Book XI - He Crosses the Rubicon

Book XII - Isabel, Mrs. Glendinning, the Portrait, and Lucy

Book XIII - They Depart the Meadows

Book XIV - The Journey and the Pamphlet

Book XV - The Cousins

Book XVI - First Night of Their Arrival in the City

Book XVII - Young America in Literature

Book XVIII - Pierre, as a Juvenile Author, Reconsidered

Book XIX - The Church of the Apostles

Book XX - Charlie Millthorpe

Book XXI - Pierre Immaturely Attempts a Mature Book

Book XXII - The Flower-Curtain Lifted from Before a Tropical Author

Book XXIII - A Letter for Pierre. Isabel. Arrival of Lucy's Easel and Trunks

Book XXIV - Lucy at the Apostles'

Book XXV - Lucy, Isabel, and Pierre. Pierre at His Book. Enceladus

Book XXVI - A Walk; a Foreign Portrait; a Sail. And the End