The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) by: Herman Melville. ( NOVEL ) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781546614821)

s the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact day of the novel's setting. The Confidence-Man 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: 1546614826
ISBN-13: 9781546614821
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2017
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.38d