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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
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| #2131111 in Books | Dalkey Archive Press | 2007-04-01 | 2007-02-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x1.15 x5.32l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 355 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Melville's Master Class|By Thomas Quale|Melville himself is something of an acquired taste and even among those who appreciate him, The Confidence-Man is something of an acid test. A dark carnival set aboard a Mississippi riverboat, Melville gives us no less than a disguise-shifting Satan to point up our human foibles, gullibilities, cruelties, and weaknesses, economic, social||"I love the book, more than Moby-Dick, more than any native novel I can think of. Melville is the muse of my America, and The Confidence-Man is my vade mecum. I ve read it over and over, and sometimes tried to imitate it. And yet. . . . Is
A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress.Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by B...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade | Herman Melville. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
