Herman Melville is primarily known for his masterpiece Moby Dick, which has been reprinted and filmed several times. But not many people know that the writer also had a second great work. This edition includes the most discussed, unpredictable and mysterious novel “Pierre, or Ambiguities”, published in Russian for the first time. In America, on the rich family estate of Saddle Meadows, the Glendinning family leads a luxurious and carefree existence - Mrs. Glendinning moves in the highest circles of local society ; her son, Pierre, an athlete and a talented young writer who has gained his first fame, is going to marry the lovely Lucy, with whom he seems to be madly in love. But an unexpected meeting with the mysterious beauty Isabel threatens to destroy Pierre’s entire happy life, as it lifts the veil of a dark family secret...