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    The Confidence-Man (Unabridged)
    The Confidence-Man (Unabridged)
    The Confidence-Man (Unabridged)
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Confidence-Man (Unabridged)

    Written by Herman Melville

    Narrated by Bryan Godwin

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    About this audiobook

    The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans.
    The novel's title refers to its central character, an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day. This stranger attempts to test the confidence of the passengers, whose varied reactions constitute the bulk of the text. In this work Melville is at his best illustrating the human masquerade. Each person, including the reader, is forced to confront that in which he places his trust.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookstream Audiobooks
    Release dateDec 20, 2020
    ISBN9783990868317
    The Confidence-Man (Unabridged)
    Author

    Herman Melville

    Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who received wide acclaim for his earliest novels, such as Typee and Redburn, but fell into relative obscurity by the end of his life. Today, Melville is hailed as one of the definitive masters of world literature for novels including Moby Dick and Billy Budd, as well as for enduringly popular short stories such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Bell-Tower.

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