The Confidence-Man Melville Herman
The Confidence-Man Melville Herman Onboard the Fid le, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. Making very little from…
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The Confidence-Man Melville Herman
Onboard the Fid le, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. 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.
Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Is he the Devil? 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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