Literary Collections, American

The Confidence-Man

Name: The Confidence-Man
Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780199554850

by Herman Melville, John Dugdale (With), Tony Tanner

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Synopsis

The authoritative edition of Melville's last novel

Jim Lewis - Conjunctions

I love the book, more than Moby-Dick, more than any native novel I can think of. Melville is the muse of my America, and The Confidence-Man is my vade mecum. I've read it over and over, and sometimes tried to imitate it. And yet. . . . Is there a more lighthearted and amusing tale that's meaner and more misanthropic?

About the Author, Herman Melville

Herman Melville's legend is as mammoth and elusive as the whale that established it. The author's Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale stands as one of literature's greatest epics, a story of mythological proportions that was grounded in real life and a new way of storytelling. Melville's work, underappreciated in its time, remains as much subject to debate and interpretation as it was when he first caught the public eye with his South Seas adventure, Typee, in 1846.