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518 pages • first pub 1857 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780810103252
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 01 April 1984
Description
Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and,...
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518 pages • first pub 1857 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780810103252
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 01 April 1984
Description
Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and,...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings