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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers (Chapel Hill Books)
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers - Chapel Hill Books
Author: Johnson Jones Hooper
These pioneer sketches of the antics of a backwoods gambler in the flush times of the old Southwest are a landmark in the development of American humor and the "tell-tale tradition." In 1844 this new figure stalked out of the brush into American picaresque literature. Gaunt, disheveled Captain Simon Suggs, always profiting but never thriving by ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807840467
ISBN-10: 0807840467
Publication Date: 1969
Pages: 207
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Paperback
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