| Description |
1 online resource (lxix, 201 pages) : illustrations |
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The Library of Alabama classics |
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Library of Alabama classics.
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| Contents |
Introduction by Johanna Nicol Shields; Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; 1. Introduction-Simon Plays the Snatch Game; 2. Simon Gets a Soft Snap Out of His Daddy; 3. Simon Speculates; 4. Simon Starts Forth to Fight the Tiger, and Falls in with a Candidate Whom He Does to a Cracklin'; 5. Simon Fights the Tiger and Gets Whipped-But Comes Out Not Much the Worse for Wear -- 6. Simon Speculates Again; 7. Simon Becomes Captain; 8. Captain Suggs and Lieutenant Snipes Court-Martial Mrs. Haycock; 9. The Tallapoosy Vollantares Meet the Enemy |
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10. The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting11. The Captain Is Arraigned before A Jury of His Country -- 12. Conclusion-Autographic Letter from Suggs ; Taking the Census; 1. Part First ; 2. Part Second; Daddy Biggs' Scrape at Cockerell's Bend |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
"The Library of Alabama classics edition is a facsimile of the 1858 volume"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
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Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Humorous.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Swindlers and swindling
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| SUBJECT |
Alabama -- Fiction
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Alabama
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| Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction
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Fiction
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Humorous fiction.
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Romans (teksten)
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Humorous fiction.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hooper, Johnson Jones, 1815-1862.
Taking the census
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Hooper, Johnson Jones, 1815-1862.
Daddy Bigg's scrape at Cockerell's Bend
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| ISBN |
0585258937 |
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9780585258935 |
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