The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
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"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.
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About the author
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet who went to sea at twenty and drew on it for the rest of his life. Moby-Dick, published in 1851, sold poorly and confused its reviewers; Melville spent his last decades working as a customs inspector in New York, his books out of print. The reappraisal came thirty years after his death, and the novel is now read as the central American epic. Billy Budd, found unfinished among his papers, was not published until 1924.