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Pierre, or, The Ambiguities, a Common card
Pierre, or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Ranked #2,711 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Pierre, or, The Ambiguities quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pierre, or, The Ambiguities card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Published after the ______ reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster.
Answer
lukewarm. Published after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster. From the Pierre, or, The Ambiguities article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Pierre, or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in ____.
Answer
1850s. Pierre, or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. From the Pierre, or, The Ambiguities article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Sudarshan Venu. Sudarshan Venu 39,000 · Yul Edochie 26,000 · Pierre, or, The Ambiguities 14,000 · Heap 9,900 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The novel uses many conventions of Gothic fiction and depicts psychological, sexual, and familial tension between Pierre Glendinning, his widowed mother, his cousin Glendinning Stanly, his fiancée Lucy Tartan, and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.
- According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville "purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel" rather than to experiment and incidentally work some personal experience into the novel.
- Published after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pierre, or, The Ambiguities article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pierre, or, The Ambiguities (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Harper, NY, 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
