The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

ISBN-13: 9780199554850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str.

Herman Melville

Opis

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.
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O autorze

Tony Tanner was sometime Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK, and Professor of English and American Literature in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.