TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melville,Herman
TI  - The confidence-man: his masquerade 
SN  - 0810103249
AV  - PS2380 .F68 1984
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Evaston
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Allegories
KW  - gsafd
N2  - Herman Melville's The Confindence-Man: His Masquerade was the tenth, last, and most perplexing book of his decade as a professional man of letters. After it he gave up his ambitious effort to write works that would be both popular and profound and turned to poetry. The book was published on April 1--the very day of its title character's April Fools' Day masquerade on a Mississippi River Steamboat
ER  -