The Confidence-Man - Herman Melville - Libros -  - 9798643270621 - 4 de mayo de 2020
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The Confidence-Man

Onboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream. Font used in this annotated edition is Baskerville - 12.

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Publicado 4 de mayo de 2020
ISBN13 9798643270621
Páginas 228
Dimensiones 203 × 254 × 12 mm   ·   458 g
Lengua Inglés  

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