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Aug 2024
11h 8m

The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade by H...

Classic Literature
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The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: philosophy On April Fool's Day, a steamboat pushes off from St. Louis and heads down the Mississippi, carrying a cross-section of antebellum America: merchants, widows, gamblers, clerks, reformers, and dreamers, all enclosed together in a floating marketplace of stories and schemes. As ... Show More
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