num_pages: 518
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: Literature, American, Crime, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, United States, 19th Century, Fiction, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 3145
publisher: Northwestern University Press