The Confidence-Man

By: Herman Melville

Published 1989 by Oxford University Press (first published 1857)

Category: Arts

Pages: 362 pages

Description:
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence man? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.