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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

by Herman Melville



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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

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