Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches

by Hooper, Johnson Jones
ISBN: 9780817307066
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Overview

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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Hooper, Johnson Jones
  • ISBN: 9780817307066
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.88 x 0.80
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 1993