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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs : Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches /
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 nat...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
University of Alabama Press,
1993.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.