The Confidence-Man
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The work was published on the exact day of th
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Political cartoon of one type of con from the 19th century.
St. Lawrence steamboat, painted in 1850
Manuscript fragment from Chapter 14 of The Confidence-Man.
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel uses many conventions of Gothic fiction and depicts psychological, se
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