The confidence-man: his masquerade, paperback/herman melville

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 Melvilles last and most modern novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.

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