Confidence-Man

The name of that novel binds all of these ideas together: The Confidence-Man.

Scott Thill: Bridge to Somewhere 2008

And under our current rules, Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man wouldn't have entered the public domain until 1961, crimping the 1920s Melville revival.

Boing Boing: September 1, 2002 - September 7, 2002 Archives 2002

Still, if we're looking for a literary progenitor for the era now past, it would not be Auden but Herman Melville's "The Confidence-Man," for these were the years of the great con and the sweeping swindle.

JSOnline.com 2010

The Confidence-Man, duping passengers floating down the nation's great artery, the Mississippi River, on the paddle-steamer

The Chicago Blog 2009

The Confidence-Man, duping passengers floating down the nation's great artery, the Mississippi River, on the paddle-steamer

The Chicago Blog 2009

Critics have compared Lethem’s early novels to the works of contemporary titans, but Chronic City has more in common with Herman Melville’s numbing final novel, The Confidence-Man.

2009 November 05 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

Here was food for literary exegesis: a sprawling international cast of recurring characters worthy, if not of War and Peace, then at least of Melville’s The Confidence-Man.

How To Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood 2007

Here was food for literary exegesis: a sprawling international cast of recurring characters worthy, if not of War and Peace, then at least of Melville’s The Confidence-Man.

How To Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood 2007

Here was food for literary exegesis: a sprawling international cast of recurring characters worthy, if not of War and Peace, then at least of Melville’s The Confidence-Man.

How To Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood 2007

Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

jlake.com 2009