# The Confidence-Man

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- Book: [The Confidence-man](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/the-confidence-man) ([The Confidence-man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville/the-confidence-man.md))
- Authors: [Herman Melville](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-03-7575-802-7
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2003-09-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game....