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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville

355 pages first pub 1857 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
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A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a...

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