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
First edition title page
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.
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes in 1876. It is a poetic fiction about a young American man named