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The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 10: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade 🔍
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, Bryant, John, 1949- New York : Modern Library, 2003 Modern Library pbk. ed., New York, New York State, 2003
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xlix, 331 p. ; 21 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. [xli]-xliv)
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Alternative title
The Confidence-Man (Modern Library Classics)
Alternative title
The Confidence Man
Alternative author
Herman Melville; edited, with an introduction and notes by John Bryant
Alternative author
G. Thomas Tanselle
Alternative publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Northwestern University Press
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Random House, Incorporated
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Random House AudioBooks
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2003 Modern Library paperback edition, New York, 2003
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United States, United States of America
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1984
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xli]-xliv).
Alternative description
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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"In "The Confidence-Man," writes John Bryant in his Introduction, "Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools." Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool's Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, "The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society. Set from the first American edition of 1857, this Modern Library paperback includes an Appendix with Bryant's innovative "fluid text" analysis of early manuscript fragments from Melville's novel
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Herman Melville ; Edited, With An Introduction And Notes By John Bryant. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [xli]-xliv).
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2023-06-28
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