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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 54 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Norton critical edition.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Aiden Lawrence. |
| Summary |
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857, presumably the exact day of the novel's setting, The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. 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 is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence, Man alongside Melville's Moby-Dick and "Bartle by the Scrivener" as a precursor to 20th-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Confidence-man.
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Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
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Mississippi River -- Fiction.
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Steamboats -- Fiction.
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American fiction -- 19th century.
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| Genre |
Allegories.
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| Added Author |
Parker, Hershel, editor.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781669301875 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1669301877 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14463673 |
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