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Onboard the Fidele, 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 conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream.
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Fiction, Swindlers and swindling, Steamboats, Mississippi River, Confidence-man (Melville, Herman), Swindlers and swindling in literature, Classic Literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Mississippi, fiction, Fiction, humorous, Children's fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Humorous stories, Large type books, American literature, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, satire, Criminals, fictionPeople
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The confidence-man: his masquerade
2003, Modern Library
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The confidence-man: his masquerade
1990, New York, N.Y., USA, Penguin Books
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"Bibliography of the first editions of the prose works of Herman Melville" by Michael Sadleir: p. [337]-358.
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