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A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being... Read Full Overview

Herman Melville was a well-known American novelist in his day, with best-sellers like Typee, but by the time he died in 1891, he had fallen into obscurity. Although his first few books were popular, they too began to collect dust and be forgotten in the country.Then came the... Read Full Overview

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The Confidence-Man... Read Full Overview

In the same moment with his advent, he stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fid le, on the point of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with the air of one neither courting nor shunning regard, but evenly pursuing the path of duty, lead it through solitudes or... Read Full Overview

The Confidence-Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence-Man... Read Full Overview

"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" is the 1857 novel by Herman Melville, his ninth and final work. It tells the interlocking stories of a group of travelers aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi River making their way towards New Orleans. Emulating the style of Chaucer's... Read Full Overview

Like a microcosm of America, the Fidele, a Mississippi steamboat bound for New Orleans, floats downstream without reaching its goal, its passengers all the victims or abusers of trust or confidence. Melville's confidence man--deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting--represents... Read Full Overview

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick . The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River... Read Full Overview

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville... Read Full Overview