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The confidence-man : his masquerade / Herman Melville.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Series:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. 1968 ; Works. v. 10.
- The Writings of Herman Melville ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Mississippi River--Fiction.
- Mississippi River.
- Steamboats--Fiction.
- Steamboats.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Satire.
- Allegories.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 518 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Northwestern-Newberry edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston : Northwestern University Press ; Chicago : Newberry Library, 1984.
- Summary:
- Herman Melville's The Confindence-Man: His Masquerade was the tenth, last, and most perplexing book of his decade as a professional man of letters. After it he gave up his ambitious effort to write works that would be both popular and profound and turned to poetry. The book was published on April 1--the very day of its title character's April Fools' Day masquerade on a Mississippi River Steamboat.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Nathaniel Philbrick
- Loomings
- The Carpet Bag
- The Spouter-Inn
- The Counterpane
- Breakfast
- The Street
- The Chapel
- The Pulpit
- The Sermon
- A Bosom Friend
- Nightgown
- Biographical
- Wheelbarrow
- Nantucket
- Chowder
- The Ship
- The Ramadan
- His Mark
- The Prophet
- All Astir
- Going Aboard
- Merry Christmas
- The Lee Shore
- The Advocate
- Knights and Squires
- Ahab
- Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
- The Pipe
- Queen Mab
- Cetology
- The Specksynder
- The Cabin Table
- The Mast-Head
- The Quarter-Deck
- Ahab and all
- Sunset
- Dusk
- First Night-Watch
- Forecastle
- Midnight
- Moby Dick
- The Whiteness of the Whale
- Hark!
- The Chart
- The Affidavit
- Surmises
- The Mat-Maker
- The First Lowering
- The Hyena
- Ahab's Boat and Crew
- Fedallah
- The Spirit-Spout
- The Pequod meets the Albatross
- The Gam
- The Town Ho's Story
- Monstrous Pictures of Whales
- Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
- Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, andc.
- Brit
- Squid
- The Line
- Stubb kills a Whale
- The Dart
- The Crotch
- Stubb's Supper
- The Whale as a Dish
- The Shark Massacre
- Cutting In
- The Blanket
- The Funeral
- The Sphynx
- The Pequod meets the Jeroboam
- Her Story
- The Monkey-rope
- Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale
- The Sperm Whale's Head
- The Right Whale's Head
- The Battering-Ram
- The Great Heidelburgh Tun
- Cistern and Buckets
- The Prairie
- The Nut.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Confidence-man.
- ISBN:
- 0810103249
- 9780810103245
- 0810103257
- 9780810103252
- OCLC:
- 12751900
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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