BookshelfThe Confidence ManHerman Melville
The Confidence Man
- swindlers and swindling
- steamboats
- mississippi river
- confidence-man (melville
- herman)
- swindlers and swindling in literature
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The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans.
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From WikiquoteWell, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
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