TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melville,Herman
TI  - The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Satire
KW  - Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
KW  - Mississippi River -- Fiction
KW  - Steamboats -- Fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21816
ER  -