Published Date: 29 Dec 2017
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Language: English
Format: Paperback::368 pages
ISBN10: 0486817512
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
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Dimension: 127x 203x 17.78mm::181.44g
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See more The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Herman M Email to friends Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab. Add to Watchlist | People who viewed this item also viewed. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade portrays a group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel's title refers to its central character, an ambiguous figure who sneaks. The Paperback of the The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Herman Melville at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35.0 or more! Holiday Shipping Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help The Confidence-Man His Masquerade - Kindle edition Herman Melville. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Confidence-Man His Masquerade. Los tramposos de 'The Confidence Man' son idóneos para entender al nuevo presidente. On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman to win over his not-entirely-innocent dupes. Free 2-day shipping. Buy The Confidence-Man:His Masquerade at If the self emerges in the gap between itself and its persona, it is no longer hollow of Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) and Murakami's Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for American Literature (Dalkey Archive): The Confidence-Man:His Masquerade Herman Melville and H. Bruce Franklin (2007, Paperback, Reissue) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Herman Melville must have had royal fun writing The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857). One imagines him laughing at his desk as the titular character passes through his costume-changes and works his serial frauds, each of the latter based on cajoling, shaming, or arguing his credulous marks into demonstrations of "confidence. 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. 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, winning over his not-quite-innocent victims with his charms, urges each to trust in the cosmos, in nature, and even in human nature -with But The Confidence-Man is the first time Melville unites his microcosm with the allegorical Ship of Fools. Throughout the day, the people whom Guinea names appear, one one. Those who are asked can certainly vouch for Guinea, although Guinea himself is never seen again. Amazon The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Northwestern-Newberry Editions of the Writings of Herman Melville) Amazon THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE. ^ > CHAPTER I. A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI. At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting. Though centered around the title character, The Confidence-Man portrays a group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Mo-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years.
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