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The Confidence Man

His Masquerade (Notable American Authors)

By Herman Melville

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| Library Binding | 9780781245500

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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 Continue

“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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  • You have been warned

    Many years ago in Texas, a movie advertisement urged viewers ‘to thrill to Herman Melville’s immortal story of the sea, Moby-Dick, with Gregory Peck in the title role,’ prompting the New Yorker to comment, ‘A whale of a part.’ And how! I’ve just fini ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • You have been warned

    Many years ago in Texas, a movie advertisement urged viewers ‘to thrill to Herman Melville’s immortal story of the sea, Moby-Dick, with Gregory Peck in the title role,’ prompting the New Yorker to comment, ‘A whale of a part.’ And how! I’ve just fini ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • Preferisco di parecchio l'omonimo brano della The Jeff Healey Band.
    Speravo mi si disserrasse un'altra perla come "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street", invece tutta la noja di cui Melville sa esser capace. Si fossi Ahab lo infiocinerei…

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