Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor

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With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann.

''Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool''

In The Confidence-Man, Melville''s unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamb...

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With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann.

''Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool''

In The Confidence-Man, Melville''s unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamb...

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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9780141974385
  • Publication Date: 31 May 2012
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM