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Confidence-Man : His Masquerade by Herman. Melville (2016, CD Mp3)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-101504721853
ISBN-139781504721851
eBay Product ID (ePID)245700415
Product Key Features
TopicClassics, Satire
Book TitleConfidence-Man : His Masquerade
Publication Year2016
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorHerman. Melville
FormatCD Mp3
Dimensions
Item Length7.5 In.
Item Width5.3 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsA beautifully written yet complex work that could be a precursor to Nabokov, Pynchon, or Murakami.
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal813/.3
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
Table Of Content1. A Mute Goes aboard a Boat on the Mississippi 2. Showing That Many Men Have Many Minds 3. In Which a Variety of Characters Appear 4. Renewal of Old Acquaintance 5. The Man with the Weed Makes It an Even Question Whether He Be a Great Sage or a Great Simpleton 6. At the Outset of Which Certain Passengers Prove Deaf to the Call of Charity 7. A Gentleman with Gold Sleeve-Buttons 8. A Charitable Lady 9. Two Business Men Transact a Little Business 10. In the Cabin 11. Only a Page or So 12. Story of the Unfortunate Man, from Which May Be Gathered Whether or No He Has Been Justly So Entitled 13. The Man with the Traveling-Cap Envinces Much Humanity, and in a Way Which Would Seem to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logic 14. Worth the Consideration of Those to Whom It May Prove Worth Considering 15. An Old Miser, Upon suitable Representations, Is Prevailed upon to Venture an Investment 16. A Sick Man, after Some Impatience, Is Induced to Become a Patient 17. Towards the End of Which the Herb-Doctor Proves Himself a Forgiver of Injuries 18. Inquest into the Ture Character of the Herb-Doctor 19. A Soldier of Fortune 20. Reappearance of One Who May Be Remembered 21. A Hard Case 22. In the Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations 23. In Which the Powerful Effect of Natural Scenery Is Evinced in the Case of the Missourian, Who, in View of the Region Roundab 24. A Philanthropist Undertakes to Convert a Misanthrope, but Does Not Get Beyond Confuting Him 25. The Cosmopolitan Makes an Acquaintance 26. Containing the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, According to the Views of One Evidently Not So Prepossessed as Rousseau in Favo 27. Some Account of a Man of Questionable Morality, but Who, Nevertheless, Would Seem Entitled to the Esteem of That Eminent Eng 28. Moot Points Touching the Late Colonel John Moredock 29. The Boon Companions 30. Opening with a Poetical Eulogy of the Press and Continuing with Talk Inspired by the Same 31. A Metamorphosis More Surprising Than Any in Ovid 32. Showing That the Age of Magic and Magicians Is Not Yet Over 33. Which May Pass for Whatever It May Prove to Be Worth 34. In Which the Cosmopolitan Tells the Story of the Gentleman Madman 35. In Which the Cosmopolitan Strikingly Evinces the Artlessness of His Nature 36. In Which the Cosmopolitan Is Accosted by a Mystic, Whereupon Ensues Pretty Much Such Talk as Might Be Expected 37. The Mystical Master Introduces the Practical Disciple 38. The Disciple Unbends and Consents to Act a Social Part 39. The Hypothetical Friends 40. In Which the Story of China Aster Is at Secondhand Told by One Who, While Not Disapproving the Moral, Disclaims the Spirit o 41. Ending with a Rupture of the Hypothesis 42. Upon the Heel of the Last Scene the Cosmopolitan Enters the Barber's Shop, a Benediction on His Lips 43. Very Charming 44. In Which the Last Three Words of the Last Chapter Are Made the Text of Discourse, Which Will Be Sure of Receiving More or Le 45. The Cosmopolitan Increases in Seriousness
SynopsisIn his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War.Evoking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans. Aboard the Fidèle can be found all manner of con man, from those selling stock in failing companies and herbal cure-all "medicines" to those who are raising money for a supposed charitable organization and those who simply ask for money outright. One man sneaks aboard ship to test the so-called confidence of the passengers, and everyone is forced to confront that in which he places his trust before journey's end. Mixing his trademark satirical style with allegory and metaphysical treatise, Melville's The Confidence Man is a precursor to the twentieth-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism., In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War.Evoking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans. Aboard the Fidele can be found all manner of con man, from those selling stock in failing companies and herbal cure-all "medicines" to those who are raising money for a supposed charitable organization and those who simply ask for money outright. One man sneaks aboard ship to test the so-called confidence of the passengers, and everyone is forced to confront that in which he places his trust before journey's end. Mixing his trademark satirical style with allegory and metaphysical treatise, Melville's The Confidence-Man is a precursor to the twentieth-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism., In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War. Evoking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans. Aboard the Fidèle can be found all manner of con man, from those selling stock in failing companies and herbal cure-all "medicines" to those who are raising money for a supposed charitable organization and those who simply ask for money outright. One man sneaks aboard ship to test the so-called confidence of the passengers, and everyone is forced to confront that in which he places his trust before journey's end. Mixing his trademark satirical style with allegory and metaphysical treatise, Melville's The Confidence-Man is a precursor to the twentieth-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism.
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