In this Book
- Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
- Series: Library Alabama Classics
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction
- pp. vii-2
- 3. Simon Speculates
- pp. 30-41
- 6. Simon Speculates Again
- pp. 69-81
- 7. Simon Becomes Captain
- pp. 82-95
- 10. The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting
- pp. 118-133
- 12. Conclusion–Autographic Letter from Suggs
- pp. 141-148
- Taking the Census
- pp. 149-188
- Daddy Biggs' Scrape at Cockerell's Bend
- pp. 189-201
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817389154
Related ISBN(s)
9780817307066
MARC Record
OCLC
45729347
Pages
271
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1993