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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
University of Alabama Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (271 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780817389154 |