Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs

Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches

von Johnson Jones Hooper

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780817307066
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.1993
• Größe: 200 x 139 mm
• Verlag: University of Alabama Press