Herman Melville 
The Confidence-Man [EPUB ebook] 

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The Confidence-Man – Herman Melville – On April Fool’s Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman to win over his not-entirely-innocent dupes. The central character’s shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human identity even as his impudent hoaxes form a meditation on illusion and trust.This comic allegory addresses themes of sincerity, character, and morality in its challenge to the optimism and materialism of mid-19th-century America. By the time of its publication, readers had pigeonholed Herman Melville as a writer of adventure yarns. The novel was completely misunderstood by the author’s contemporaries, and its financial failure drove him away from fiction. With the passage of time, however, The Confidence-Man has come to be recognized for its stunningly modern techniques and its indictment of the dark side of the American dream.

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Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. He worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839, his experiences spawning his successful early novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Subsequent books, including his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851), sold poorly, and by the 1860s Melville had turned to poetry. Following his death in New York City in 1891, he posthumously came to be regarded as one of the great American writers.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 322 ● ISBN 9783985948277 ● Filstorlek 0.8 MB ● Ålder 17-10 år ● Utgivare Phoemixx Classics Ebooks ● Stad Vachendorf ● Land DE ● Publicerad 2021 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7905337 ● Kopieringsskydd Social DRM

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