[The Confidence 01] • The Confidence-Man

[The Confidence 01] • The Confidence-Man
Authors
Melville, Herman
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Tags
100 best , classics , horror , mystery , crime
ISBN
9780192837622
Date
1857-04-01T08:00:00+00:00
Size
0.31 MB
Lang
en
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Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence man? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.