The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics)
The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville, edited by Tony Tanner, John Dugdale
English | August 3, 2009 | ISBN: 0199554854 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.5 MB
English | August 3, 2009 | ISBN: 0199554854 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.5 MB
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.