Pierre

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by George Inness, Edward Mitchell Bannister and Albert Bierstadt. A young man of a great Hudson valley family discovers he has a half-sister and destroys his own life acknowledging her. Melville wrote it straight after Moby-Dick, in fury at his reception; a reviewer's headline read Herman Melville Crazy, and his standing with the reading public nev...