| The Confidence-Man Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1477689419 ISBN-13: 9781477689417 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.76 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'The Confidence-Man' was Herman Melville's last major completed work. It has been compared to 'The Canterbury Tales', as its stories are told by a group of passengers travelling along the Mississippi by steamboat. But the book's real aim is to explore the different reactions of the diverse assembly to the presence in their midst of a mysterious and ambiguous stranger, the 'confidence-man' of the title... |