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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics) about?
“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.” Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool’s Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American s
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140445473
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.68 / 5 (84 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 10: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (2003)
- Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; : Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Bu (2017)
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Reviews, Criticism and an Annotated Bibliography (A Norton Critical Edition) (1971)
- The Confidence-Man (The World's Classics) (1999)
- The Confidence-man: His Masquerade (Classics) (1990)
- Moby Dick, or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition (Melville) (1988)
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics) (2014)
- The Confidence-man : His Masquerade (1979)
- The Confidence-Man: Volume Ten, Scholarly Edition (1984)
- The Confidence Man (Literary Classics) (1995)
- The Confidence-man : His Masquerade (2011)
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics) (1990)
- Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, Volume Two, Scholarly Edition (Melville) (1968)
- Clarel : A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (The Writings of Herman Melville, Vol. 12) (1991)
- The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics) (1857)
- The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics) (2009)
- The Confidence-Man (The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 10) (1984)