Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Pierre, or The Ambiguities, Herman Melville follows Pierre Glendinning, a young heir raised amid privilege and rigid expectations in rural New York. Poised to inherit status, security, and a conventional future, Pierre's life is unsettled when a mysterious young woman appears with a story that threatens to rewrite everything he believes about his family and his own identity. Driven by a fierce, idealistic sense of honor and a longing to act purely in a compromised world, Pierre makes a drastic choice that severs him from his mother, his fiancee Lucy, and the social order that once defined him. Seeking reinvention, he flees to the city and tries to build a new life through writing, only to confront the harsh economics of art, the duplicities of friendship, and the moral fog of desire, duty, and self-deception. Part psychological drama, part dark social satire, and part philosophical inquiry, the novel probes how love, faith, and family myths collide with secrecy and suspicion. As Pierre struggles to distinguish truth from performance, he is pulled deeper into a web of conflicting loyalties and interpretations where every motive can be read two ways.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:01:45) Chapter 02

(01:40:41) Chapter 03

(02:20:34) Chapter 04

(02:53:15) Chapter 05

(03:29:17) Chapter 06

(04:22:24) Chapter 07

(05:27:46) Chapter 08

(06:22:49) Chapter 09

(07:06:04) Chapter 10

(08:08:08) Chapter 11

(08:29:39) Chapter 12

(08:59:43) Chapter 13

(09:16:58) Chapter 14

(09:49:28) Chapter 15

(09:56:43) Chapter 16

(10:34:55) Chapter 17

(11:09:34) Chapter 18

(11:47:21) Chapter 19

(12:21:37) Chapter 20

(12:45:36) Chapter 21

(13:16:45) Chapter 22

(13:37:03) Chapter 23

(14:14:32) Chapter 24

(14:45:11) Chapter 25

(15:22:12) Chapter 26

(15:43:02) Chapter 27

(16:10:23) Chapter 28

(16:33:46) Chapter 29

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