The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: eBook Edition

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This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. The novel's title refers to its central character, an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day. This stranger attempts to test the confidence of the passengers, whose varied reactions constitute the bulk of the text. Each person including the reader is forced to confront that in which he places his trust ... (from wikipedia.com)

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  The Confidence-man: His Masquerade: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources,...

  • 1971
  • 376 pages
  • Paperback
  • Norton