- Fiction, Swindlers and swindling, Steamboats, Mississippi River
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave.
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Cool, prestige, intimate and contemplative.
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Herman Melville
- First published
- 1857
- Pages
- 345
- Publisher
- Editora 34, John Lehmann, Signet Classics
- Editions
- 100
- Language
- und, Portuguese, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780891908906
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“AT sunrise on a first of April,* there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca,* a man in creamcolours, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis.*”
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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