{"product_id":"2940169577815","title":"Pierre: or, The Ambiguities","description":"\u003cp\u003ePierre Glendinning is the nineteen-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York. Engaged to the blonde Lucy Tartan in a match approved by his domineering mother, Pierre encounters the dark and mysterious Isabel Banford, who claims to be his half-sister, the illegitimate and orphaned child of his father and a European refugee. Driven by his magnetic attraction to Isabel, Pierre devises a remarkable scheme to preserve his father¿s name, spare his mother¿s grief, and give Isabel her proper share of the estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1852, \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e was condemned by critics of the time: ¿a dead failure,¿ ¿this crazy rigmarole,¿ and ¿a literary mare¿s nest.¿ Latter-day critics, however, have recognized in the story of Melville¿s idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental gothic novel and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156387447024,"sku":"2940169577815","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169577815_p0.jpg?v=1769896834","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169577815","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}