Confidence-man (e-bog) af Melville, Herman
Melville, Herman (forfatter)

Confidence-man e-bog

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Onboard the Fid le, 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,...
E-bog 117,05 DKK
Forfattere Melville, Herman (forfatter), Matterson, Stephen (introduktion)
Forlag Penguin
Udgivet 25 august 2005
Længde 400 sider
Genrer Classic fiction: general and literary
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780141958552
Onboard the Fid le, 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.