The Confidence-Man EPUB
by Herman Melville
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The Confidence-Man - Herman Melville - 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.
The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human identity even as his impudent hoaxes form a meditation on illusion and trust.This comic allegory addresses themes of sincerity, character, and morality in its challenge to the optimism and materialism of mid-19th-century America.
By the time of its publication, readers had pigeonholed Herman Melville as a writer of adventure yarns.
The novel was completely misunderstood by the author's contemporaries, and its financial failure drove him away from fiction.
With the passage of time, however, The Confidence-Man has come to be recognized for its stunningly modern techniques and its indictment of the dark side of the American dream.
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- Publisher:Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
- Publication Date:11/08/2021
- ISBN:9783985948277
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- Publisher:Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
- Publication Date:11/08/2021
- ISBN:9783985948277