Confidence-Man : His Masquerade

by Herman Melville

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series American Literature (Dalkey Archive)

ISBN-10 1564784541

ISBN-13 9781564784544

Publisher Dalkey Archive Press

Imprint Dalkey Archive Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 17th, 2007

Print length 355 Pages

Weight 492 grams

Dimensions 13.60 x 20.30 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress.Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive.

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