The Confidence-Man
361 pages
|Published: 1 Apr 1857
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ISBN: 9780192837622
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele 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.
