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
The Confidence-Man
β Scribed by Herman Melville
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Dover Publications
- Year
- 2007;2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 343 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0486825949
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