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The confidence-man: his masquerade; an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, reviews, criticism [and] an annotated bibliography.
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The confidence-man: his masquerade; an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, reviews, criticism [and] an annotated bibliography.

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: New York, Norton [1971]
Series: A Norton critical edition
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English
Summary:
Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool's Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society.
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Genre/Form: Satire
Fiction
Named Person: Herman Melville
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Herman Melville
ISBN: 0393043452 : 0393099687 9780393043457 : 0393099687 0393099687 9780393099683
OCLC Number: 210816
Notes: "Slightly corrected reprinting of the first American edition," published in 1857.
Description: xvii, 376 p. 21 cm.
Series Title: A Norton critical edition
Responsibility: Edited by Hershel Parker.

Abstract:

Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool's Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society.

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