false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166490955m/12036.jpg 12036 50 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. 924854 1857 The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics) total:413|5:119|4:131|3:110|2:33|1:20| 413 1535 691 43 5 1 false false Wed Feb 27 08:34:37 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 22:07:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 15:37:51 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 20:10:29 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Tue Dec 18 23:17:17 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 23:19:23 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 22 15:32:26 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 13:09:44 -0700 2009
I had no inclination what a timely book this would be now that our democracy is beset by real confidence-men. This was an especially challenging read, posing more questions than offering any answers. Melville's confidence-...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu May 22 06:31:38 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 07:23:28 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 22:54:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 23:00:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Mar 03 21:29:10 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 12:05:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 15:23:54 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 22:23:42 -0700 2009
Combustible, brilliant, dialectical, like a Marx brothers film in the mid American 19th Century. Literally filled with ramshackle, charming, sleazy, opportunistic, phantasmal, eccentric, grotesque, gaudy, loquacious characters who are all out to

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"What are you? What am I? Nobody knows who anybody is. The da...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 09:54:04 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 09:54:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jun 01 17:40:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 17:42:25 -0700 2009 Bartleby the Scrivener. And when, 20 pages into this, I found nothing that changed my opinion about his litera...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 04:58:59 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 05:03:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 25 22:19:12 -0800 2008 Thu May 08 15:49:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 09:29:13 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 10:24:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 30 16:11:19 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 16:12:42 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 05 21:33:30 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 21:34:09 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Mon Nov 03 12:47:44 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 12:47:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 19:06:36 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 19:06:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jun 28 21:52:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 22:32:25 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12036