(Library ebook) The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)
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| #253070 in Books | Herman Melville | 1991-07-02 | 1991-07-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.63 x5.00l,.72 | File Name: 0140445471 | 400 pages | Confidence Man
||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Mississippi Boat Ride|By Paul Howard Miller|Embarking from St Louis on a Mississippi riverboat named Fidèle (Faithful) two hand written signs are on display. On one a Christ like deaf mute writes lines from Corinthians like "Charity thinketh no evil" and "Charity believeth all things" and on the other a barber not wishing to give credit writes "NO TRUST". A line from Th||“The great transcendental satire.” —Carl Van Vechten|From the Inside Flap|"In "The Confidence-Man," writes John Bryant in his Introduction, "Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and so
Onboard the Fidèle, 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 con...
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