01677cam a22003493u 4500 21816 UtSlPG 20260610133513.0 m cr n 260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2007 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confidence-Man Release date is 2007-06-12 LN Yaddanapudi and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" by Herman Melville is a novel published in 1857. Set aboard a Mississippi River steamboat on April Fool's Day, the story follows mysterious figures who may be the same man in disguise. These confidence men manipulate passengers through fraud, persuasion, and philosophical conversation, exploiting trust and charity. Blending multiple genres and questioning the line between fiction and reality, Melville crafts a cynical satire about deception, faith, and American society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Satire Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction Mississippi River -- Fiction Steamboats -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21816 62960 62960