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Fiction

bluescribbler

(2,114 posts) Sat Apr 25, 2020, 09:53 AM Apr 2020

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Thinking today about a book I read in college

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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Thinking today about a book I read in college (Original Post) bluescribbler Apr 2020 OP

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

raging moderate

(4,297 posts)

1. Yes! That story should be widely published!

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Sat Apr 25, 2020, 10:03 AM

Apr 2020

It might get through to some of the 19th century MAGA minds.

cilla4progress

(24,725 posts)

2. What's it about?

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Sat Apr 25, 2020, 11:56 AM

Apr 2020

Would love to check it out!

bluescribbler

(2,114 posts)

3. As the title suggests,

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:52 PM

Apr 2020

It's about a man who assumes multiple identities and disguises to obtain money fraudulently.

SinisterPants

(89 posts)

4. Thanks for reminding me of this gem!

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Mon May 4, 2020, 09:03 PM

May 2020

It, along with "It Can't Happen Here" should be required reading.

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