Confidence-Man
β Scribed by Melville, Herman
- Book ID
- 100890081
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- Italian
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
fiction; prose, Native American
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
fiction; prose, Native American
Onboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan' gentlem
Long considered the author's strangest novel, this work is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-18th-century America. A mysterious shape-changing confidence-man approaches passengers on a Mississippi steamboat and, winning over the (not quite innocent) victims with his charm