The Confidence-man: His MasqueradeHendricks House, 1954 - 392 páginas Savage irony and black humor as Melville's Confidence-Man strips away the hypocritical pretenses of fellow passengers on a Mississippi steamboat. |
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PREFACE | xiii |
A mute goes aboard a boat on the Mississippi | 1 |
tion whether he be a great sage or a great | 26 |
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