The confidence-man ; and, Billy Budd, sailor
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The confidence-man ; and, Billy Budd, sailor
（Penguin English library）
Penguin, 2012
Available at 26 libraries
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"The confidence-man first published 1857. Published in Penguin classics edited by Stephen Matterson 1990. Billy Budd, sailor first published 1924. Published in Penguin classics edited by Frederick Busch 1986"--T.p. verso
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Confidence - Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'
In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamboat.
Billy Budd, Sailor, published after Melville's death in 1891, is a gripping allegory of good and evil, as an innocent man, pressed into service on a British man-of-war, is falsely accused of mutiny. Both these late works are animated with the dark genius of the greatest of American writers.
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