The Melville, Herman 1819-1891 creator text utu 2007 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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 Original publication data not identified Satire Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction Mississippi River -- Fiction Steamboats -- Fiction PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21816 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21816 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133513.0 21816