The Confidence-Man His Masquerade
The Confidence-Man His Masquerade
- ISBN 13:
9780486817514
- ISBN 10:
0486817512
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/15/2017
- Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary
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.