Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, The

By Melville, Herman

Book Id: WPLBN0002950981
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Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, The
Author:	Melville, Herman
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, The
Historic Publication Date:	1857
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Melville, B. H. (1857). Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, The. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Melville's Moby-Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener as a precursor to 20th-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism.

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