基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：400 页
出版日期：1991年07月
ISBN：0140445471
条形码：9780140445473
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：骗子

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“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.” Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool’s Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society. Set from the first American edition of 1857, this Modern Library paperback includes an Appendix with Bryant’s innovative “fluid text” analysis of early manuscript fragments from Melville’s novel. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介 Herman Melville (1819-91) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His novels include Moby-Dick, Typee, and Omoo, all published in authoritative editions by Northwestern University Press.
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?The great transcendental satire.? ?Carl Van Vechten --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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?The great transcendental satire.? ?Carl Van Vechten --This text refers to the Paperback edition.