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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.     Subjects     Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Confidence-man.     Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. -- Criticism and interpretation.     Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.     Hoaxes -- Fiction.     Steamboats -- Fiction.     River boats -- Fiction.     Mississippi River -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.       by title:      The confidence-man: ...       by call number:      FICTION MEL     Search the Web     Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.     Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Confidence-man.     Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. -- Criticism and interpretation.     Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.     Hoaxes -- Fiction.     Steamboats -- Fiction.     River boats -- Fiction.     Mississippi River -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The confidence-man: his masquerade : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, reviews, criticism [and] an annotated bibliography / Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker. by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Norton, 1971. Call #: FICTION MEL Subjects Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Confidence-man.   Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. -- Criticism and interpretation.   Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.   Hoaxes -- Fiction.   Steamboats -- Fiction.   River boats -- Fiction.   Mississippi River -- Fiction. Series Norton critical edition. ISBN:  9780199554850 (Oxford World's Classics pbk. reissue 2008) 0393043452 Description:  xvii, 376 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "Slightly corrected reprinting of the first American edition, " published in 1857. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-376). Summary:  Onboard the Fidele, 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. Genre:  Allegories. Satire. Historical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION MEL Adult books Not Available Add Copy to MyList

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