Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs
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Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs
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Author : Johnson Jones Hooper
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1993-10-30
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs written by Johnson Jones Hooper and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-30 with Fiction categories.
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.
Some Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs
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Author : Johnson Jones Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1846
Some Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs written by Johnson Jones Hooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1846 with categories.
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs
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Author : Johnson Jones Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 1993-05-20
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs written by Johnson Jones Hooper and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-05-20 with Fiction categories.
A Classic of the Southwestern Humor school that influenced Mark Twain, this portrait of a rascally backcountry trickster remains an engaging parody of enduring aspects of the American character. Southern Classics Series.
Simon Suggs Adventures
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Author : Johnson Jones Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Simon Suggs Adventures written by Johnson Jones Hooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with American fiction categories.
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs
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Author : Johnson Jones Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Release Date : 2009-06
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs written by Johnson Jones Hooper and has been published by Kessinger Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06 with Literary Collections categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs Late Of The Tallapoosa Volunteers
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Author : Johnson Jones Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs Late Of The Tallapoosa Volunteers written by Johnson Jones Hooper and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...end of the enclosure, and standing near an empty whiskey barrel, was Lieutenant Snipes. He had not been so successful as the Captain in the matter of his toilette. Around his black wool hat was pasted, or stitched, a piece of deep purple gilt paper, such as is often found upon bolts of linen. Upon this was represented a battle between a lion and a unicorn; and in a scroll above were certain letters, which as Lieutenant Snipes himself remarked, " didV, spell nothing"--at least, nothing that he could comprehend. In his hand was the handle of a hoe, armed at one extremity with a rusty bayonet--the only weapon of its kind, at that moment, to be found in the whole garrison of Fort Suggs. Equipped thus, and provided with a dirty sheet of paper, a portable inkstand, (containing poke-berry juice, ) and the stump of a pen--all of which were upon the head of the barrel--the doughty Lieutenant awaited the moment when it should please Captain Suggs to arraign the prisoner and proceed with the trial. " Tallapoosy Vollantares, parade here!" thundered Captain Suggs, as he walked up to the barrel. Very soon the " component parts" of the " Vollantares" were grouped about their Captain. "Form in a straight line!" squealed Lieutenant Snipes. The company took the form of a half-moon! Captain Suggs now ordered Mrs. Haycock to be brought out; whereupon Snipes went into the backroom of the store, and directly appeared again, Beading the widow--who limped considerably, and howled like a full pack of wolves--by the hand. The Captain, however, by a judicious threat of instant decapitation, reduced the noise to a series of mere sobbings. " Hadn't we better fix some way to have some music," said Suggs, " and march round the house once, before we perceed with the...
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs Late Of The Tallapoosa Volunteers
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Author : Johnson Jones Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs Late Of The Tallapoosa Volunteers written by Johnson Jones Hooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with Alabama categories.
Some Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs Late Of The Tallapoosa Volunteers
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Author : Johnson Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-18
Some Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs Late Of The Tallapoosa Volunteers written by Johnson Hooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with categories.
Johnson Jones Hooper was born in Wilmington, North Carolina as the youngest of three sons of Archibald Maclaine Hooper and Charlotte de Bernier Hooper. He moved to Dadeville, Alabama in 1835 where he edited a newspaper and practiced law. All told, he founded or edited six different publications during his career.His first published work, in 1843, was "Taking the Census in Alabama", drawn from his own experiences as a census taker in Tallapoosa County. In 1844 he began publishing short stories about the rascally Simon Suggs, which he collected and published in 1845 as the Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; broadly, cruelly, and uncouthly humorous, yet one of the raciest books of its time, descriptive of a gambling sharp of the Southwest in the "flush times." The work made him nationally known, and may have inspired one or more characters of Mark Twain's.
The Humor Of The Old South
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Author : M. Thomas Inge
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21
The Humor Of The Old South written by M. Thomas Inge and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Humor categories.
The humor of the Old South—tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters—flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary popular culture focusing on the rural South. This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty five years' best writing on the subject, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor. Other chapters examine the origins of this early humor, in particular selected poems of William Henry Timrod and Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which anticipate the subject matter, character types, structural elements, and motifs that would become part of the Southwestern tradition. Renditions of "Sleepy Hollow" were later echoed in sketches by William Tappan Thompson, Joseph Beckman Cobb, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Francis James Robinson, and William Gilmore Simms. Several essays also explore antebellum southern humor in the context of race and gender. This literary legacy left an indelible mark on the works of later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, whose works in a comic vein reflect affinities and connections to the rich lode of materials initially popularized by the Southwestern humorists.