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Confidence-man

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: Penguin Books
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství
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Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
1991
Stránek
400
EAN
9780140445473
ISBN
0140445471
Enbook ID
04024422
Vydavatel
Hmotnost
272
Rozměry
129 x 198 x 19

Kompletní popis

Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a cosmopolitan' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream.

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