The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)

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Herman Melville

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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)

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novel, american and good.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.

Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.

This product had a total of 87 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 4 2020.

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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Set aboard a mississippi sidewheel steamer in the 1850s melvilles novel charts the progress of the american character at a time when the old frontier was giving way albeit slowly to a new urban frontier

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It is a callandresponse of idealism suborned for the purposes of sheer humbuggery material theft and moral sophistry

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The wretched reception of the confidenceman undermined what little was left of melvilles own selfconfidence as a writer whose work could support his family

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What is at stake here is the foundation of western thought and selffashioning

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I just hope nobody ever tries to make a movie out of this

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Disregarded in melvilles lifetime this book could have been written today

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Melvilles novel constantly asks this question of the reader as we follow the progressive duping of passengers aboard the fidele

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I entirely missed out on him myself as i am not used to suppose that various characters might just be the same disguised

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