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.
The Confidence-Man
ISBN: 0192837621
ISBN 13: 9780192837622
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 361
Authors: Herman Melville, John Dugdale, Tony Tanner
