{"product_id":"9780141199306","title":"Penguin English Library The Confidence Man And Billy Budd Sailor","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Confidence - Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool' In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamboat. Billy Budd, Sailor, published after Melville's death in 1891, is a gripping allegory of good and evil, as an innocent man, pressed into service on a British man-of-war, is falsely accused of mutiny. Both these late works are animated with the dark genius of the greatest of American writers. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016164032752,"sku":"9780141199306","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141199306_p0.jpg?v=1763655140","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141199306","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}