Pierre

by Herman Melville

PIERRE

OR, THE AMBIGUITIES

BY

HERMAN MELVILLE

CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD

LONDON • BOMBAY • SYDNEY

1923

CONTENTS

BOOK		PAGE
I.	PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM HIS TEENS	1
II.	LOVE, DELIGHT, AND ALARM	27
III.	THE PRESENTIMENT AND THE VERIFICATION	58
IV.	RETROSPECTIVE	92
V.	MISGIVINGS AND PREPARATIONS	120
VI.	ISABEL, AND THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY OF ISABEL	153
VII.	INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN PIERRE'S TWO INTERVIEWS WITH ISABEL AT THE FARM-HOUSE	180
VIII.	THE SECOND INTERVIEW AT THE FARM-HOUSE, AND THE SECOND PART OF THE STORY OF ISABEL. THEIR IMMEDIATE IMPULSIVE EFFECT UPON PIERRE	201
IX.	MORE LIGHT, AND THE GLOOM OF THAT LIGHT; MORE GLOOM, AND THE LIGHT OF THAT GLOOM	231
X.	THE UNPRECEDENTED FINAL RESOLUTION OF PIERRE	240
XI.	HE CROSSES THE RUBICON	254
XII.	ISABEL: MRS. GLENDINNING: THE PORTRAIT: AND LUCY	262
XIII.	THEY DEPART THE MEADOWS	280
XIV.	THE JOURNEY AND THE PAMPHLET	284
XV.	THE COUSINS	301
XVI.	FIRST NIGHT OF THEIR ARRIVAL IN THE CITY	320
XVII.	YOUNG AMERICA IN LITERATURE	341
XVIII.	PIERRE, AS A JUVENILE AUTHOR, RECONSIDERED	358
XIX.	THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES	369
XX.	CHARLIE MILLTHORPE	383
XXI.	PIERRE IMMATURELY ATTEMPTS A MATURE WORK. TIDINGS FROM THE MEADOWS. PLINLIMMON	393
XXII.	THE FLOWER-CURTAIN LIFTED FROM BEFORE A TROPICAL AUTHOR, WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL FLESH-BRUSH PHILOSOPHY	411
XXIII.	A LETTER FOR PIERRE. ISABEL. ARRIVAL OF LUCY'S EASEL AND TRUNKS AT THE APOSTLES'	427
XXIV.	LUCY AT THE APOSTLES'	448
XXV.	LUCY, ISABEL, AND PIERRE. PIERRE AT HIS BOOK. ENCELADUS	459
XXVI.	A WALK: A FOREIGN PORTRAIT: A SAIL: AND THE END	485