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As passengers aboard the steamboat Fidele prepare for their trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, they read a placard offering a reward for the capture of an imposter from the East a confidence man. During the trip, the imposter assumes many disguises as he goes about the boat cheating and duping passengers out of their money. In confrontations between the confidence man and his victims, Melville explores the hypocrisy and deceit seen to be nor�mal in a commercial society.
The Confidence-Man was Herman Melville's last major novel before his interests changed from being a professional writer to becoming a professional lecturer. With a writing style comparable to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, in that all of the character's stories interlock as the book progresses, The Confidence Man is written in a manner of satire dealing with the themes of sincerity, identity, morality, economic materialism, and irony.
The book is written based on Melville's belief that It is or seems to be a wise sort of thing, to realize that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he has them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally and impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it. In an age of commercial deception and cynicism, this is must reading.
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St.
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the final novel by Herman Melville.
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: As passengers aboard the steamboat Fidele prepare for their trip from St.
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: A discussion of literary sources, structure, meaning, and history of the novel accompanies the approved version of the symbolic novel about a fantastic voyage
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St.
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the final novel by Herman Melville.
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: As passengers aboard the steamboat Fidele prepare for their trip from St.
This edition also contains The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
About: "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" is the 1857 novel of Herman Melville which tells the interlocking stories of a group of travelers aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi River making their way toward New Orleans.
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
About: A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P.
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About: A discussion of literary sources, structure, meaning, and history of the novel accompanies Melville's symbolic tale about a fantastic voyage
About: Presents a collection of the writings of Herman Melville.
This edition also contains The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
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