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Confidence tricks in literature : ウィキペディア英語版 | Confidence tricks in literature This is a list of notable literary works involving confidence tricks. ==Nineteenth century==
* ''The Government Inspector'' (1836) – play by Nikolai Gogol; the main character deceives the corrupt officials of a small town into believing that he is a government inspector * ''Dead Souls'' (1836) – novel by Nikolai Gogol; the main character poses as a wealthy landowner so that he can acquire the "souls" of dead serfs * ''The Confidence-Man'' (1857) – novel by Herman Melville; the main character tests confidence of other people * ''Les Misérables'' (1862) – novel by Victor Hugo; the Thénardiers, two of the primary villains scam money from people * ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884) – novel by Mark Twain; two characters, The Duke and the Dauphin are grifters * "The Red-Headed League" (1891) – Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle, which involves a sort of confidence trick used to enable a bank robbery
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