The Confidence-man: His MasqueradeHendricks House, 1954 - 392 стор. Savage irony and black humor as Melville's Confidence-Man strips away the hypocritical pretenses of fellow passengers on a Mississippi steamboat. |
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... mind in the period of The Confidence - Man , and it is written by the person best fitted to comprehend the mind and feeling of Herman Melville . Melville , Hawthorne says , 23 was looking much as he used to do ( a little paler , and ...
... mind in the period of The Confidence - Man , and it is written by the person best fitted to comprehend the mind and feeling of Herman Melville . Melville , Hawthorne says , 23 was looking much as he used to do ( a little paler , and ...
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... mind , ain't he ? " again appealed the old miser . " Pray , sir , " said the herb - doctor to the Missourian , “ for what were you giving thanks just now ? " " For this : that , with some minds , truth is , in effect , not so cruel a ...
... mind , ain't he ? " again appealed the old miser . " Pray , sir , " said the herb - doctor to the Missourian , “ for what were you giving thanks just now ? " " For this : that , with some minds , truth is , in effect , not so cruel a ...
Сторінка 387
... mind is bewildered < the pious mind XXXX is forced > into a < humble re- ligious confession of ignorance , so by the contrasts < inconsistencies > in the actions thoughts & X feelings and actions of man , workings of human nature , the ...
... mind is bewildered < the pious mind XXXX is forced > into a < humble re- ligious confession of ignorance , so by the contrasts < inconsistencies > in the actions thoughts & X feelings and actions of man , workings of human nature , the ...
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PREFACE | xiii |
A mute goes aboard a boat on the Mississippi | 1 |
tion whether he be a great sage or a great | 26 |
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