The Monster in the Milk Bowl
Richard Poirier, 3 October 1996
Pierre, or The Ambiguities
by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker.
HarperCollins, 449 pp., £15.99, May 1996,0 06 118009 2 Show More
by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker.
HarperCollins, 449 pp., £15.99, May 1996,
“... to write sections and passages that he then added to the manuscript, and by 21 January his brother Allan was informing Harpers that the manuscript already exceeded the length originally agreed to, possibly hoping, but in vain, that they would pay a bit more for it. No manuscript of the novel has been found, but it is estimated that the additions make up about ... ”