The book was published on April 1--the very day of its title character's April Fools' Day masquerade on a Mississippi River Steamboat.
The book was published on April 1--the very day of its title character's April Fools' Day masquerade on a Mississippi River Steamboat.
THE CONFIDENCE-MAN BY HERMAN MELVILLE WITH BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC COVER.
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, presumably the exact day of the novel's setting.
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting.
s the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact day of the novel's setting.
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact day of the novel's setting.
The Confidence-man: His Masquerade ; with an Afterword by R.W.B. Lewis
This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville s life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others "Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and ...
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. Louis....
Presents the authoritative text of Herman Melville's classic work "The Confidence Man;" and contains textual and explanatory notes, contemporary reviews and critical essays, and biographical overviews.
A group of steamboat passengers paddle to New Orleans on April Fool's Day.
The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
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Melville's final novel examines the dark heart of American society in the years leading up to the Civil War. A group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi River trade...
"Others might call him an original genius." "Yes, being original in his folly. Genius? His genius is a cracked pate, and, as this age goes, not much originality about that." "May he not be knave, fool, and genius altogether?
He's a fool I say again.” “ Others might call him an original genius.” “ Yes, being original in his folly. Genius? His genius is a cracked pate, and, as this age goes, not much originality about that.” “ May he not be knaVe, fool, ...
In an age of commercial deception and cynicism, this is must reading. Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist and poet, was born in New York City.
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.