The Confidence-Man (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781477689417)

'The Confidence-Man' was Herman Melville's last major completed work. It has been compared to 'The Canterbury Tales', as its stories are told by a group of passengers travelling along the Mississippi by steamboat. But the book's real aim is to explore the different reactions of the diverse assembly to the presence in their midst of a mysterious and ambiguous stranger, the 'confidence-man' of the title...

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1477689419
ISBN-13: 9781477689417
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2012
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53d