The Confidence-Man: Large Print

The Confidence-Man: Large Print
ISBN-10
1730731880
ISBN-13
9781730731884
Series
The Confidence-man
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2018-11-05
Publisher
Independently Published
Author
Herman Melville

Description

The Confidence-Man: Large Printby Herman MelvilleLong considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-innocent victims with his charms, urges each to trust in the cosmos, in nature, and even in human nature-with predictable results. In Melville's time the book was such a failure he abandoned fiction writing for twenty years; only in the twentieth century did critics celebrate its technical virtuosity, wit, comprehensive social vision, and wry scepticism.

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