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The confidence-man : his masquerade / Herman Melville.

By: Series: The Writings of Herman Melville | Melville, Herman, Works ; v. 10.Publication details: Evaston : Northwestern University Press, 1984.Edition: Northwestern-Newberry edDescription: ix, 518 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0810103249
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS2380 .F68 1984
Summary: Herman Melville's The Confindence-Man: His Masquerade was the tenth, last, and most perplexing book of his decade as a professional man of letters. After it he gave up his ambitious effort to write works that would be both popular and profound and turned to poetry. The book was published on April 1--the very day of its title character's April Fools' Day masquerade on a Mississippi River Steamboat.
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Herman Melville's The Confindence-Man: His Masquerade was the tenth, last, and most perplexing book of his decade as a professional man of letters. After it he gave up his ambitious effort to write works that would be both popular and profound and turned to poetry. The book was published on April 1--the very day of its title character's April Fools' Day masquerade on a Mississippi River Steamboat.

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