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bluescribbler

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Sat Apr 25, 2020, 09:53 AM Apr 2020

Thinking today about a book I read in college [View all]

A book which seems strangely appropriate today. The course was titled 19th Century American Literature. We read
Emerson and Thoreau, Dickinson and Poe, Twain and Douglass, but this story was The Confidence Man, by Herman Melville.
Anybody else read that story?

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Yes! That story should be widely published! raging moderate Apr 2020 #1
What's it about? cilla4progress Apr 2020 #2
As the title suggests, bluescribbler Apr 2020 #3
Thanks for reminding me of this gem! SinisterPants May 2020 #4
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