The Confidence-Man
His Masquerade
$36.10
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2003
Summary
Melville’s exceptionally entertaining and simultaneously perplexing allegorical satire of antebellum American life. Introduced and with notes by John Bryant.
“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.”
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375758027 |
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| ISBN-10: | 037575802X |
| Author: | Herman Melville, John Bryant |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 2003rd |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 307g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 135mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“The great transcendental satire.” -Carl Van Vechten
“The great transcendental satire.” —Carl Van Vechten
About The Author
Herman Melville
John Bryant is a professor of English at Hofstra University and the editor of the Melville Society’s journal, Leviathan. He is the author of Melville and Repose and The Fluid Text. He is also the editor of Melville’s Tales, Poems, and Other Writings, published by the Modern Library.
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