The Confidence-man: His Masquerade (Classics) [Idioma Inglés] (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140445471 ISBN 13: 9780140445473

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1991

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"The great transcendental satire." --Carl Van Vechten

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Onboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140445471
• ISBN 13: 9780140445473
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Matterson Stephen