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Product Identifiers
PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-101564784541
ISBN-139781564784544
eBay Product ID (ePID)53868794
Product Key Features
Book TitleConfidence-Man : His Masquerade
Number of Pages355 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicClassics, Literary, Humorous / General
GenreFiction
AuthorHerman. Melville
Book SeriesAmerican Literature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-017019
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal813/.3
Edition DescriptionReissue
SynopsisA scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress. Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man ? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive., A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress.Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive.
LC Classification NumberPS2384.C6 2006
