The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor Paperback / softback
by Herman Melville
Part of the The Penguin English Library series
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Confidence - Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamboat. Billy Budd, Sailor, published after Melville's death in 1891, is a gripping allegory of good and evil, as an innocent man, pressed into service on a British man-of-war, is falsely accused of mutiny.
Both these late works are animated with the dark genius of the greatest of American writers. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2012
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- ISBN:9780141199306
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2012
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- ISBN:9780141199306
