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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aMelville, Herman,
_d1819-1891
245 1 4 _aThe Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confidence-Man
500 _aRelease date is 2007-06-12
508 _aLN Yaddanapudi and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aSatire
653 _aSwindlers and swindling -- Fiction
653 _aMississippi River -- Fiction
653 _aSteamboats -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21816
999 _c62960
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