At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was ...

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans

A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo ...

Herman Melville (1819 –1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” “The Confidence-Man: His ...

Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool's Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration ...