EPISODE · Apr 4, 2026 · 23 MIN
Pierre BOOK XVIII
from The Herman Melville Library · host Herman Melville
In which the young and proud Pierre, amidst his noble inheritance and humble beginnings as a juvenile author, reflects upon the often ungracious progress of genius, the burdensome rubbish of early works, and the peculiar society that rewards common mediocrity while scorning fervent earnestness. It is amid these musings that we glimpse his quaint satisfactions and the bittersweet paradoxes of literary ambition and worldly recompense in an age poised between fading grandeur and persistent sincerity.
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Pierre BOOK XVIII
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