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The Confidence-man : His Masquerade by Herman Melville; R. W. B. Lewis is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Confidence-man : His Masquerade about?
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. 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. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. 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.
Who reads The Confidence-man : His Masquerade?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Herman Melville; R. W. B. Lewis
- Publisher
- New York: New American Library
- Published
- 1979
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780451520180
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- 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: 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: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics) (2005)
- The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics) (2009)
- The Confidence-Man (The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 10) (1984)