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The Confidence-Man

The Confidence-Man

Melville, Herman
Bryant, John

Paperback

Series: Modern Library Classics

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 037575802X
ISBN13: 9780375758027
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Sep 9 2003
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
In The Confidence-Man, writes John Bryant in his Introduction, Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools. 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. Set from the first American edition of 1857, this Modern Library paperback includes an Appendix with Bryant's innovative fluid text analysis of early manuscript fragments from Melville's novel.

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