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THE CONFIDENCE-MAN (Modern Classics Series)

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026874358
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book THE CONFIDENCE-MAN (Modern Classics Series) written by Herman Melville and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “THE CONFIDENCE-MAN (Modern Classics Series)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Confidence-Man is an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day. This stranger attempts to test the confidence of the several steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Herman Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. His best known works include Typee, a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, its sequel Omoo, and the great classic Moby-Dick.

The Confidence Men

Author : Margalit Fox
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984853864
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence Men written by Margalit Fox and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time. FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine.”—The New York Times Book Review Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board—and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception—to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom. A gripping nonfiction thriller, The Confidence Men is the story of one of the only known con games played for a good cause—and of a profound but unlikely friendship. Had it not been for “the Great War,” Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch, would never have met. But in pain, loneliness, hunger, and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that saved both of their lives. Margalit Fox brings her “nose for interesting facts, the ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality” (Kathryn Schulz, New York) to this tale of psychological strategy that is rife with cunning, danger, and moments of high farce that rival anything in Catch-22.

The Confidence-Man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775419924
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Herman Melville is synonymous with the pinnacle of American literary achievement, and many regard his novel Moby-Dick as the quintessential work of American fiction. In The Confidence-Man, Melville's final major novel, the author explores the motivations, travails, and personalities of a group of boat passengers en route to New Orleans, as well as the mysterious trickster figure who riles things up at the margins of the group.

Confidence Man

Author : Maggie Haberman
Publisher : Singel Uitgeverijen
ISBN 13 : 9029549815
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Confidence Man written by Maggie Haberman and published by Singel Uitgeverijen. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump’s presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that chronicles his life and its impact, from his rise in New York City to his tortured postpresidency. All of Trump’s behavior as president had echoes in what came before. In this revelatory and news-making book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering and consequential eras in American political history.

The Confidence-Man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3985948275
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confidence-Man - Herman Melville - On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman to win over his not-entirely-innocent dupes. The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human identity even as his impudent hoaxes form a meditation on illusion and trust.This comic allegory addresses themes of sincerity, character, and morality in its challenge to the optimism and materialism of mid-19th-century America. By the time of its publication, readers had pigeonholed Herman Melville as a writer of adventure yarns. The novel was completely misunderstood by the author's contemporaries, and its financial failure drove him away from fiction. With the passage of time, however, The Confidence-Man has come to be recognized for its stunningly modern techniques and its indictment of the dark side of the American dream.

The Confidence-man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)

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The Confidence-man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-man written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans

The Big Con

Author : David Maurer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030775572X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Big Con written by David Maurer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.” “Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and entertaining works of criminology ever written. A professor of linguistics who specialized in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers, who let him in on not simply their language but their folkways and the astonishingly complex and elaborate schemes whereby unsuspecting marks, hooked by their own greed and dishonesty, were “taken off” – i.e. cheated—of thousands upon thousands of dollars. The Big Con is a treasure trove of American lingo (the write, the rag, the payoff, ropers, shills, the cold poke, the convincer, to put on the send) and indelible characters (Yellow Kid Weil, Barney the Patch, the Seldom Seen Kid, Limehouse Chappie, Larry the Lug). It served as the source for the Oscar-winning film The Sting.

Confidence Man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606192002
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Confidence Man written by Herman Melville and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poorly received when first published in 1857, The Confidence Man is now considered Herman Melville's 'most nearly perfect work', and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, this powerful and engaging novel, through the conversations of the confidence man (who may be looked on as the Devil or God), explores America and American values. Part satire, part hoax, The Confidence Man is also a dark look at the nothingness lurking beneath our beliefs and assumptions - a look at a universe in which neither God nor the Devil exists, and where Christianity is only a comforting fiction little better than an April Fool's prank.

The CONFIDENCE-MAN by Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973847625
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The CONFIDENCE-MAN by Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic books are worth reading.If you are reader, you should not miss them.You will say "AWESOME" to all the classic books.

The Confidence-Man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781075029233
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CONFIDENCE-MAN BY HERMAN MELVILLE WITH BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC COVER. PERFECTLY FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES CLASSIC BOOKS OR AS A GIFT FOR YOU LOVED ONE. GET YOURS TODAY! Specifications: Cover Finish: GLOSSY Dimensions: 5,25" x 8" (13,34 x 20,32 cm) Interior: White Paper Pages: 242

Confidence Men and Painted Women

Author : Karen Halttunen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300037883
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Confidence Men and Painted Women written by Karen Halttunen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America. "An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting. ... This book adds immeasurably to the current work on sentimental culture and American cultural history and brings to its task an inquisitive, fresh, and intelligent perspective. ... Essential reading for historians, literary critics, feminists, and cultural commentators who wish to study mid-nineteenth-century American culture and its relation to contemporary values."--Dianne F. Sadoff, American Quarterly "A compelling and beautifully developed study. ... Halttunen provides us with a subtle book that gently unfolds from her mastery of the subject and intelligent prose."--Paula S. Fass, Journal of Social History "Halttunen has done her homework--the research has been tremendous, the notes and bibliography are impressive, and the text is peppered with hundreds of quotes--and gives some real insight into an area of American culture and history where we might have never bothered to look."--John Hopkins, Times Literary Supplement "The kind of imaginative history that opens up new questions, that challenges conventional historical understanding, and demonstrates how provocative and exciting cultural history can be."--William R. Leach, The New England Quarterly "A stunning contribution to American cultural history."--Alan Trachtenberg

The Confidence-Man: Edited by Stephen Matterson (Penguin Classics).

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (926 download)

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Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Con Man

Author : Todd Robbins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159691453X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Con Man written by Todd Robbins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whimsical resource for low-risk grifters provides a treasury of humorous tips and historical facts about the art of the con, in a volume that outlines easy-to-follow swindles that can be used to score free meals, good tickets, bar bets, and more.

The Confidence-man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393979275
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-man written by Herman Melville and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the authoritative text of Herman Melville's classic work "The Confidence Man;" and contains textual and explanatory notes, contemporary reviews and critical essays, and biographical overviews.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: Novel

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781799019589
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: Novel written by Herman Melville and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting. The Confidence-Man portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. Scholar Robert Milder notes: "Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, though it continues to resist interpretive consensus."[1] After the novel's publication, Melville turned from professional writing and became a professional lecturer, mainly addressing his worldwide travels, and later for nineteen years a federal government employee.