The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, presumably 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."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.

Médias	Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé	31 mars 2016
ISBN13	9781530826780
Éditeurs	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	160
Dimensions	203 × 254 × 9 mm · 331 g
Langue et grammaire	English

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