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The Little Golden Calf is a satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, first published in 1931. A sequel to The Twelve Chairs, it revives the resourceful con man Ostap Bender and follows his attempt to extract money from a clandestine millionaire living under Soviet rule. The...

Thomas Mann’s *Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man* is a German novel published in 1954. It tells the story of Felix Krull, a young con artist operating in Wilhelminian Berlin. The book's significance lies in its exploration of deception and social dynamics through a vibrant picaresque narrat...

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is an 1857 satirical novel by Herman Melville, notable for being the last novel published during his lifetime. The story takes place entirely on April Fools' Day aboard the Mississippi River steamboat Fidèle, which is traveling toward New Orleans. A mysterious, sha...

Illywhacker is a 1985 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. Its narrator, Herbert Badgery, presents himself as an extraordinarily old confidence man and recounts an unreliable life of schemes, inventions, relationships, and failures across twentieth-century Australia. Combining picaresque adventur...

Kvachi Kvachantiradze is a 1924 picaresque novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili. The narrative follows the titular anti-hero, a charismatic and manipulative swindler, as he traverses Russia and Europe, exploiting the social and political upheavals of the early 20th century. The book is...