| Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Hooper, Johnson Jones (Author), Shields, Johanna Nicol (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0817307060 ISBN-13: 9780817307066 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93001427 |
| Series: Library Alabama Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.48" W x 7.88" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, "it is good to be shifty in a new country," fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national archetypes now know as the confidence man, the grafter, the professional flim-flam artist supremely skilled in the arts by which a man gets along in the world. This classic volume of good humor is set in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier life and politics. |