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The Confidence-Man: Volume Ten, Scholarly Edition Hardcover - 1988
by Herman Melville; Hershel Parker (Editor); G. Thomas Tanselle (Editor)
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.
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- Title The Confidence-Man: Volume Ten, Scholarly Edition
- Author Herman Melville; Hershel Parker (Editor); G. Thomas Tanselle (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st US - 1st Pri
- Pages 518
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, U.S.A.
- Date December 1, 1988
- ISBN 9780810103245 / 0810103249
- Weight 2.4 lbs (1.09 kg)
- Dimensions 9.55 x 6.66 x 1.76 in (24.26 x 16.92 x 4.47 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mississippi River Basin
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85171722
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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