The Confidence-Man
β Herman Melville
π Fiction
π
2007;2017
π Random House Publishing Group;Dover Publications
π English
β 343 KB
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The Confidence-man
β Scribed by Herman Melville
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2009;2005
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 289 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream.
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