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The Confidence-Man

by Herman Melville

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  1. 1Chapter I — A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi
  2. 2Chapter II — Showing That Many Men Have Many Minds
  3. 3Chapter III — In Which a Variety of Characters Appear
  4. 4Chapter IV — Renewal of Old Acquaintance
  5. 5Chapter V — The Man With the Weed Makes It an Even Question Whether…
  6. 6Chapter VI — At the Outset of Which Certain Passengers Prove Deaf t…
  7. 7Chapter VII — A Gentleman With Gold Sleeve-Buttons
  8. 8Chapter VIII — A Charitable Lady
  9. 9Chapter IX — Two Business Men Transact a Little Business
  10. 10Chapter X — In the Cabin
  11. 11Chapter XI — Only a Page or So
  12. 12Chapter XII — Story of the Unfortunate Man, From Which May Be Gathe…
  13. 13Chapter XIII — The Man With the Traveling-Cap Evinces Much Humanity…
  14. 14Chapter XIV — Worth the Consideration of Those to Whom It May Prove…
  15. 15Chapter XV — An Old Miser, Upon Suitable Representations, Is Prevai…
  16. 16Chapter XVI — A Sick Man, After Some Impatience, Is Induced to Beco…
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Towards the End of Which the Herb-Doctor Proves Hims…
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Inquest Into the True Character of the Herb-Doctor
  19. 19Chapter XIX — A Soldier of Fortune
  20. 20Chapter XX — Reappearance of One Who May Be Remembered
  21. 21Chapter XXI — A Hard Case
  22. 22Chapter XXII — In the Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — In Which the Powerful Effect of Natural Scenery Is…
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — A Philanthropist Undertakes to Convert a Misanthrope…
  25. 25Chapter XXV — The Cosmopolitan Makes an Acquaintance
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Containing the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, Accordi…
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — Some Account of a Man of Questionable Morality, but…
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — Moot Points Touching the Late Colonel John Moredock
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — The Boon Companions
  30. 30Chapter XXX — Opening With a Poetical Eulogy of the Press and Conti…
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — A Metamorphosis More Surprising Than Any in Ovid
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — Showing That the Age of Magic and Magicians Is Not…
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — Which May Pass for Whatever It May Prove to Be Worth
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — In Which the Cosmopolitan Tells the Story of the Ge…
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — In Which the Cosmopolitan Strikingly Evinces the Art…
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — In Which the Cosmopolitan Is Accosted by a Mystic,…
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — The Mystical Master Introduces the Practical Disciple
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — The Disciple Unbends, and Consents to Act a Socia…
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — The Hypothetical Friends
  40. 40Chapter XL — In Which the Story of China Aster Is at Second-Hand To…
  41. 41Chapter XLI — Ending With a Rupture of the Hypothesis
  42. 42Chapter XLII — Upon the Heel of the Last Scene the Cosmopolitan Ent…
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — Very Charming
  44. 44Chapter XLIV — In Which the Last Three Words of the Last Chapter Ar…
  45. 45Chapter XLV — The Cosmopolitan Increases in Seriousness

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