The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman ...
The Confidence-Man
Book by Herman Melville
Originally published: April 1, 1857
Author: Herman Melville
Genres: Novel, Satire, Reference work, and more
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It is a combination of of vignettes featuring fast talking con men and their targets, philosophical debates and hypotheticals suitable for an ethics class.
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Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America.
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A dark carnival set aboard a Mississippi riverboat, Melville gives us no less than a disguise-shifting Satan to point up our human foibles, gullibilities, ...
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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 ...
May 28, 2022 · Destroys confidence, paternal confidence, of which God knows that there is in this world none to spare. For, comparatively inexperienced as you ...
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With his tricks and backslapping deceits, Melville's confidence man engineers an existential drama that seems quintessential to capitalist modernity: in a world ...
For Melville, the act of scamming represents everything that is wrong in American society in the decade preceding the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a time ...
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The novel is a tale of interlocking stories sold in the style of the Canterbury Tales, about a group of travelers on a steamboat as they make their way down the ...
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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 ...