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Page 49
... disguises , to whom the title of the novel refers , remains in some doubt.1 This chapter will identify the confidence man as a single figure who assumes eight separate disguises , which constitute his " masquerade . " Moreover ...
... disguises , to whom the title of the novel refers , remains in some doubt.1 This chapter will identify the confidence man as a single figure who assumes eight separate disguises , which constitute his " masquerade . " Moreover ...
Page 51
... disguises . The Confidence - Man is sufficiently ambiguous at every point to make the identification of the central character at least a debatable matter . Never- theless , even such a skeptical critic as Drew does not deny that there ...
... disguises . The Confidence - Man is sufficiently ambiguous at every point to make the identification of the central character at least a debatable matter . Never- theless , even such a skeptical critic as Drew does not deny that there ...
Page 158
... Disguises in Paradise Lost , " identifies additional allusions to Mil- ton's Satan , particularly in the episodes in which the mute appears , and argues that , in his disguise as the mute as well as in all of his other disguises , the ...
... Disguises in Paradise Lost , " identifies additional allusions to Mil- ton's Satan , particularly in the episodes in which the mute appears , and argues that , in his disguise as the mute as well as in all of his other disguises , the ...
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