Recounts the enchanted career of the con man extraordinaire Felix Krull--a man unhampered by the moral precepts that govern the conduct of ordinary people.

The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected. The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. " Contemporary Reviews " includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man , eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 “In The Confidence-Man ,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.” Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool’s Day and populated by a...(展开全部)

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) - largely considered a...(展开全部)

托马斯·曼（Thomas Mann，1875－1955），德国作家，1929年诺贝尔文学奖得主。1894年发表处女作《堕落》。1901年长篇小说《布登勃洛克一家》问世，奠定他在文坛的地位。以后发表《特里斯坦》（1903）、《托尼奥·克勒格尔》（1903）和《威尼斯之死》（1912）等。1924年因表长篇小说《魔山》闻名全球。1930年发表中篇《马奥与魔术师》。1939年发长篇《约瑟夫和他的兄弟们》的前三部以及《绿蒂魏玛》等。1947年长篇小说《浮士德博士》问世。1955年8月12日，在80寿辰后，结束了他“史诗性的，而非戏剧性的生命”。 1929年，由于他在文学艺术领域的杰出贡献“主要是由于伟大小说《布登勃洛克一家》，它作为现代文学经典作品的地位一年比一年巩固”，获得诺贝尔文学奖。

出身英国的大卫·奥格威，是现代广告业的大师级传奇人物，他一手创立了奥美广告公司，开启了现代广告业的新纪元。他确立了奥美这个品牌，启蒙了对消费者研究的运用，同时创造出一种崭新的广告文化。 奥格威早年做过厨师、炊具推销员，后移居美国，在乔治·盖洛普博士的受众研究所担任助理调查指导。二战期间先后在英国安全协调处（British Security Coordination）和英国驻美大使馆任职。后在宾夕法尼亚州做农夫。 他的作品机智而迷人，但最重要的是：他坚持它们必须有助于销售。他把广告业的经营和专业化推向顶峰，他的价值观造就出了一个全球性的传播网络，他睿智隽永的风格不但朔造了奥美广告，同时更深深影响着整个广告业的发展。 奥格威被《时代》周刊称为“当今广告业最抢手的广告奇才”，被《纽约时报》称为“现代广告最具创造力的推动。

出身英国的大卫·奥格威，是现代广告业的大师级传奇人物，他一手创立了奥美广告公司，开启了现代广告业的新纪元。他确立了奥美这个品牌，启蒙了对消费者研究的运用，同时创造出一种崭新的广告文化。 奥格威早年做过厨师、炊具推销员，后移居美国，在乔治·盖洛普博士的受众研究所担任助理调查指导。二战期间先后在英国安全协调处（British Security Coordination）和英国驻美大使馆任职。后在宾夕法尼亚州做农夫。 他的作品机智而迷人，但最重要的是：他坚持它们必须有助于销售。他把广告业的经营和专业化推向顶峰，他的价值观造就出了一个全球性的传播网络，他睿智隽永的风格不但朔造了奥美广告，同时更深深影响着整个广告业的发展。 奥格威被《时代》周刊称为“当今广告业最抢手的广告奇才”，被《纽约时报》称为“现代广告最具创造力的推动。

George Augustus Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. His first book, a collection of poems called The Flowers of Passion, had appeared in 1878 and a second collection, Pagan Poems, followed in 1881. His first novel, A Modern Lover (1883), was banned in England because of its, for the times, explicit portrayal of...(展开全部)

In this shocking memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins tells of his own inner journey from willing servant of empire to impassioned advocate for the rights of oppressed people. Covertly recruited by the United States National Security Agency and on the payroll of an international consulting firm, he traveled the world—to Indonesia, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, ...(展开全部)