Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches (Library Alabama Classics)
Johnson Jones Hooper
A series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the eraOriginally 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.
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Année:
1993
Langue:
english
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
0817307060
ISBN 13:
9780817307066
Fichier:
EPUB, 1.38 MB
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english, 1993