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 steamboat. Billy Budd, Sailor, published after Melville’s death in 1891, is a gripping allegory of good and evil, as an innocent man, pressed into service on a British man-of-war, is falsely accused of mutiny. Both these late works are animated with the dark genius of the greatest of American writers.The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Herman Melville
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 448 ● ISBN 9780141974385 ● Editorial Penguin Books Ltd ● Publicado 2012 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2469512 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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