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The Confidence-Man
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The Confidence-Man (1857) (edit title/settings)

by Herman Melville (Author) (edit contributors)

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“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... read more

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AT sunrise on a first of April,* there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca,* a man in creamcolours, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis.*

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This is book 15 of 200 in Newman and Jones 200 Best Horror Novels. (community list)

Preceded by The Wandering Jew, and followed by Uncle Silas.

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  1. Herman Melville (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Dix, Edwards & Co.
Country: United States
Publication Date: April 1, 1857
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 392

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