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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville (CD-Audio, 2016)

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In his ninth and final vel, cultural observer, velist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War.Evoking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans. Aboard the Fidele can be found all manner of con man, from those selling stock in failing companies and herbal cure-all medicines to those who are raising money for a supposed charitable organization and those who simply ask for money outright. One man sneaks aboard ship to test the so-called confidence of the passengers, and everyone is forced to confront that in which he places his trust before journey's end. Mixing his trademark satirical style with allegory and metaphysical treatise, Melville's The Confidence-Man is a precursor to the twentieth-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN-10
1504721802
ISBN-13
9781504721806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221773461

Product Key Features

Author
Herman Melville
Format
CD, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English

Additional Product Features

Running Time
627
Read by
Stefan Rudnicki
Contained Items Statement
9 Audio Cds
Date of Publication
07/06/2016
Subject
General & Literary Fiction
Imprint
Blackstone Audiobooks
Country of Publication
United States

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