The Confidence Man Unabridged

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man (Unabridged) written by Herman Melville and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board the steamboat Mississippi on a journey down a river of deception. It's April Fool's Day, and a mysterious stranger,the "Confidence-Man," slithers aboard. With a silver tongue and an endless capacity for disguise, he weaves a web of scams, targeting the hopes, dreams, and vulnerabilities of his fellow passengers. Will a pious man be swayed by a promise of a utopian community? Can a cynic be convinced to invest in a cure-all elixir? As the Mississippi churns, Melville's masterpiece "The Confidence-Man" delivers a darkly comic satire on American society, where trust and truth are as murky as the river itself. Prepare to be entertained, and maybe a little unsettled.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-man written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513275038
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confidence-Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence-Man was seen as a flawed, unnecessarily complicated novel, and beyond several collections of poetry, it all but ended Melville’s career as a professional writer. When Melville’s work was reappraised in the 1920s, however, scholars recognized his status as one of nineteenth century America’s finest literary voices. A keen visionary, Melville’s satirical outlook and pessimistic sense of American morality drive the fragmented narrative of The Confidence-Man, his final, most complicated, and perhaps most rewarding novel. In St. Louis, a mute man dressed in cream colored clothes boards a riverboat bound for New Orleans. On the journey down the Mississippi, a cast of characters at once bizarre and commonplace passes the time playing cards, engaging in conversation, and attempting to gain one another’s trust. A crippled African American beggar faces disbelief when he speaks of his life on the streets. A young and naïve student idolizes wealthy men and hopes to make a fortune by investing in stocks. A man in a gray suit asks his fellow passengers to donate to a suspicious charity. As the boat sails on, it becomes increasingly clear that while confidence is easily purchased, honesty remains the rarest of commodities. Set and published on April Fool’s Day, The Confidence-Man is a satire of American life that explores with unsparing pessimism themes of religion, identity, morality, and the role of money in everyday life. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412813247
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As passengers aboard the steamboat Fidele prepare for their trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, they read a placard offering a reward for the capture of an imposter from the East a confidence man. During the trip, the imposter assumes many disguises as he goes about the boat cheating and duping passengers out of their money. In confrontations between the confidence man and his victims, Melville explores the hypocrisy and deceit seen to be normal in a commercial society. The Confidence-Man was Herman Melville's last major novel before his interests changed from being a professional writer to becoming a professional lecturer. With a writing style comparable to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, in that all of the character's stories interlock as the book progresses, The Confidence Man is written in a manner of satire dealing with the themes of sincerity, identity, morality, economic materialism, and irony. The book is written based on Melville's belief that It is or seems to be a wise sort of thing, to realie that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he has them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally and impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it. In an age of commercial deception and cynicism, this is must reading. Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist and poet, was born in New York City. Working with Romantic materials of primitivism, individualism, nature and the Gothic, Melville produced a body of fiction that analyed reality in both its social and metaphysical dimensions. He is best known for his masterpiece, Moby Dick.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606192002
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confidence Man written by Herman Melville and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poorly received when first published in 1857, The Confidence Man is now considered Herman Melville's 'most nearly perfect work', and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, this powerful and engaging novel, through the conversations of the confidence man (who may be looked on as the Devil or God), explores America and American values. Part satire, part hoax, The Confidence Man is also a dark look at the nothingness lurking beneath our beliefs and assumptions - a look at a universe in which neither God nor the Devil exists, and where Christianity is only a comforting fiction little better than an April Fool's prank.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260667724
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confidence-Man is the last major work written by famous American novelist Herman Melville. It was first published in 1857, being released on April Fool's day which is also the setting of the story. It follows the day of a group of passengers on a steamboat travelling down the Mississippi River destined for New Orleans. The book is generally a light comedy that has slightly sinister themes that manifest themselves throughout the story, peaking eerily at the end! Herman Melville wrote 11 novels over his career, ending with this one, although he continued to write poetry for many years until finally passing away in 1891 at the age of 72. Melville gained little recognition for his work during his lifetime; it was only in the early 20th century that he finally began to be appreciated, most notably for his novel 'Moby Dick'. Although The Confidence-Man is one of Melville's lesser known works it is no less of a masterpiece. It is both humorous and witty with many underlying themes, such as philosophy and morality, which keep the reader interested. It is a very well written book that is undeservedly forgotten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man (Esprios Classics) written by Herman Melville and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting. Centered on the title character, The Confidence-Man portrays a group of steamboat passengers. Their interlocking stories are told as they travel the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The narrative structure is reminiscent of The Canterbury Tales (1392). Scholar Robert Milder notes: "Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, although it continues to resist interpretive consensus."

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781799019589
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: Novel written by Herman Melville and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on 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. Scholar Robert Milder notes: "Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, though it continues to resist interpretive consensus."[1] After the novel's publication, Melville turned from professional writing and became a professional lecturer, mainly addressing his worldwide travels, and later for nineteen years a federal government employee.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville: The confidence-man : his masquerade written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781075029233
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CONFIDENCE-MAN BY HERMAN MELVILLE WITH BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC COVER. PERFECTLY FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES CLASSIC BOOKS OR AS A GIFT FOR YOU LOVED ONE. GET YOURS TODAY! Specifications: Cover Finish: GLOSSY Dimensions: 5,25" x 8" (13,34 x 20,32 cm) Interior: White Paper Pages: 242