The confidence-man
Subtitle: his masquerade
By: Herman Melville ; with an introduction by Tony Tanner and explanatory notes by John Dugdale.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780199554850
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Steamboats -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle 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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.