The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

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Hendricks House, 1954 - Mississippi River - 392 pages
Savage irony and black humor as Melville's Confidence-Man strips away the hypocritical pretenses of fellow passengers on a Mississippi steamboat.

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PREFACE
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A mute goes aboard a boat on the Mississippi
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tion whether he be a great sage or a great
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Copyright

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