num_pages: 361
description: Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele 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.
language: English
title: The Confidence-Man
titlecomplete: The Confidence-Man
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Novels, United States, Crime, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 3145
publisher: Oxford University Press