The confidence-man: his masquerade
Subtitle: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, reviews, criticism [and] an annotated bibliography.
By: Edited by Hershel Parker.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Steamboats -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 363-376.
"Slightly corrected reprinting of the first American edition," published in 1857.