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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515053583)
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xThe Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Melville's Moby-Dick and "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a precursor to 20th-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism.
Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 151505358X
ISBN-13: 9781515053583
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2015
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.62d
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Melville's Moby-Dick and "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a precursor to 20th-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism.
Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 151505358X
ISBN-13: 9781515053583
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2015
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.62d
By Herman Melville
xHerman Melville (1819 - 1891) Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.
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