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The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade, Paperback / softback Book

The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade Paperback / softback

Edited by Tony (Fellow, Fellow, King's College, Cambridge) Tanner, John Dugdale

Part of the Oxford World's Classics series

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Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is `the confidence man'?

The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.

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