TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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BOOK I.
PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM HIS TEENS 1
BOOK II.
LOVE, DELIGHT, AND ALARM 26
BOOK III.
THE PRESENTIMENT AND THE VERIFICATION 56
BOOK IV.
RETROSPECTIVE 89
BOOK V.
MISGIVINGS AND PREPARATIVES 116
BOOK VI.
ISABEL, AND THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY OF ISABEL 147
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BOOK VII.
INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN PIERRE'S TWO INTERVIEWS
WITH ISABEL AT THE FARM-HOUSE 173
BOOK VIII.
THE SECOND INTERVIEW, AND THE SECOND PART OF
THE STORY OF ISABEL. THEIR IMMEDIATE IMPULSIVE
EFFECT UPON PIERRE 194
BOOK IX.
MORE LIGHT, AND THE GLOOM OF THAT LIGHT. MORE
GLOOM, AND THE LIGHT OF THAT GLOOM 224
BOOK X.
THE UNPRECEDENTED FINAL RESOLUTION OF PIERRE 233
BOOK XI.
HE CROSSES THE RUBICON 247
BOOK XII.
ISABEL, MRS. GLENDINNING, THE PORTRAIT, AND LUCY 256
BOOK XIII.
THEY DEPART THE MEADOWS 273
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BOOK XIV.
THE JOURNEY AND THE PAMPHLET 277
BOOK XV.
THE COUSINS 294
BOOK XVI.
FIRST NIGHT OF THEIR ARRIVAL IN THE CITY 312
BOOK XVII.
YOUNG AMERICA IN LITERATURE 333
BOOK XVIII.
PIERRE, AS A JUVENILE AUTHOR, RECONSIDERED 350
BOOK XIX.
THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES 360
BOOK XX.
CHARLIE MILLTHORPE 374
BOOK XXI.
PIERRE IMMATURELY ATTEMPTS A MATURE BOOK. TIDINGS
FROM THE MEADOWS. PLINLIMMON 384
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BOOK XXII.
THE FLOWER-CURTAIN LIFTED FROM BEFORE A TROPICAL
AUTHOR; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL
FLESH-BRUSH PHILOSOPHY 402
BOOK XXIII.
A LETTER FOR PIERRE. ISABEL. ARRIVAL OF LUCY'S
EASEL AND TRUNKS AT THE APOSTLES' 418
BOOK XXIV.
LUCY AT THE APOSTLES' 439
BOOK XXV.
LUCY, ISABEL, AND PIERRE. PIERRE AT HIS BOOK.
ENCELADUS 450
BOOK XXVI.
A WALK; A FOREIGN PORTRAIT; A SAIL. AND THE
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 [1852], Pierre, or, The ambiguities. (Harper & Brothers, New York) [word count] [eaf644T].
