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The Confidence-man
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans
The Confidence-Man
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1775419924 |
The name Herman Melville is synonymous with the pinnacle of American literary achievement, and many regard his novel Moby-Dick as the quintessential work of American fiction. In The Confidence-Man, Melville's final major novel, the author explores the motivations, travails, and personalities of a group of boat passengers en route to New Orleans, as well as the mysterious trickster figure who riles things up at the margins of the group.
The Confidence-Man
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 375241099X |
Reproduction of the original: The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
The King of Confidence
Author | : Miles Harvey |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0316463582 |
The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Midland Authors Annual Literary Award A Michigan Notable Book A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." —Nathaniel Philbrick In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent twelve years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively readable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
The Confidence-Man
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781441489791 |
Herman Melville's last major novel, The Confidence-Man is at once a fascinating set of interlocking tales told by travelers, a la Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and a rollicking social satire that mocks the literary greats of Melville's time: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Poe. Surprisingly modern in its outlook, The Confidence-Man explores identity, morality, irony, cynicism, religiosity, and trust on a ride down the Mississippi on a steamboat.
Satirical Apocalypse
Author | : Jonathan A. Cook |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex texts in American literature and a work that has long been noted for the divergent critical views it has elicited. Reading the novel as a generic hybrid of narrative satire and apolyptic vision, Cook situates the novel in its implicit theological, historical, and biographical contexts: he examines the novel's relation to Melville's heterodox ideas of the deity, to the increasingly commercialized cultural milieu of antebellum America, and to Melville's own life and literary career. Uncovering a wealth of new data on the novel's satirical applications, including its covert use of Melville's friends and family for character models, Cook offers a compelling reading of The Confidence-Man - one that is sure to influence our future conception of its creator.
The Confidence-Man His Masquerade
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2021-01-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville.
The Confidence-Man
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780371544822 |
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
The Confidence-Man
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781435373662 |
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public - was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Melville is less well known as a poet and did not publish poetry until late in life. Other works include Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), Mardi and a Voyage Thither (2v/1849), Redburn: His First Voyage (1849), White-Jacket (1850), Pierre (1852), Israel Potter: Fifty Years of Exile (1855), The Piazza Tales (1856), Benito Cereno (1856), Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), Timoleon (1891), The Apple-Tree Table (1922), John Marr and Other Poems (1922), The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1923), Billy Budd (1924), and Journal up the Straits (1935).