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Book Synopsis The Forayers, Or, The Raid of the Dog Days by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book The Forayers, Or, The Raid of the Dog Days written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create a prose epic through a series of linked novels detailing American history and struggles from early colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. The Forayers, which was the sixth book in his series of eight Revolutionary War novels set in the South, describes events around Orangeburg, South Carolina, before the Battle of Eutaw Springs (itself covered in this novel's sequel, Eutaw). It features such characters as Hell-fire Dick, a hardhearted, foul-mouthed looter under Tory protection. Simms hoped his readers would find this book "a bold, brave, masculine story; frank, ardent, vigorous; faithful to humanity." He described it to a friend as "fresh and original" and wrote that "the characterization [is] as truthful as forcible. It is at once a novel of society & a romance."
Book Synopsis The Forayers; Or, The Raid of the Dog-days by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book The Forayers; Or, The Raid of the Dog-days written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 188? with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Forayers by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book The Forayers written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Simms: a Literary Life (p) by : John Caldwell Guilds
Download or read book Simms: a Literary Life (p) written by John Caldwell Guilds and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompasses ante-colonial America, the English colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the rampaging frontier and constitutes a unique national literary treasure. Guilds's Simms restores Simms to his proper place as a major figure in American letters and reintroduces the man and the author to the reading public.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the St. Louis Mercantile Library by : St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Download or read book Catalogue of the St. Louis Mercantile Library written by St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Prose Fiction by : St. Louis Mercantile Library
Download or read book English Prose Fiction written by St. Louis Mercantile Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eutaw written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eutaw written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781 that ended British domination of South Carolina is the focus of this historical novel that brings to life such notable figures as Francis Marion, Nathanael Greene, and Light-Horse Harry Lee and includes a critical introduction by the editor and the author's chronology, as well as appendixes dealing with textual matters. Reprint.
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Book Synopsis A List of the Separate Writings of William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina, 1806-1870 by :
Download or read book A List of the Separate Writings of William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina, 1806-1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vasconselos by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book Vasconselos written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms's account of the region is more comprehensive than that of any other author of his time; he treats the major intellectual and social issues of the South and depicts the bonds and tensions among all of its inhabitants. By the mid-1840s Simms's novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him "the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, produced." Perhaps the darkest of Simms's novel-length works, Vasconselos (1853) presents a fictionalized account of one of the first European efforts to settle the land that would become the United States, the Hernando de Soto expedition of 1539. Set largely in Havana, Cuba, as the explorers prepare to embark, the work explores such themes as the marginalization of racial and national minorities, the historical abuse of women, and the tendency of absolute power to corrupt absolutely. In addition, Simms anticipates in this colonial romance the works of renowned scholars who would follow him, including the historian Frederick Jackson Turner and the entire formal scholarly field of psychology, which would take shape only long after the author's death.
Book Synopsis Martin Faber by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book Martin Faber written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gilmore Simms’s (1806–1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms’s career began with a short novel, Martin Faber, published in 1833. This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg’s Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson.” Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology. Martin seduces then murders Emily so that he might marry another woman, Constance. Martin confesses to his friend and is killed after attempting to stab Constance when she visits him in jail. The book was immediately successful and was well received by the northern media, thus starting Simms’s successful career as a writer, one that would rank him as the only major southern literary figure besides Poe before the Civil War. As with other volumes in the Arkansas Edition of Simms’s work, this volume includes a critical introduction by the editor and a Simms chronology, as well as appendices dealing with textual matters. This edition also includes Simms’s 1829 story, “Confessions of a Murderer,” which was the germ for his first book of fiction.
Book Synopsis Helen Halsey: a Tale of the Borders (c) by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book Helen Halsey: a Tale of the Borders (c) written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1845 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The cub of the panther by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book The cub of the panther written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Partisan by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book The Partisan written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteenth volume in the ongoing Arkansas Edition of the works of Simms, The Partisan is the first in order of publication of Simms's Revolutionary War romances.
Book Synopsis The Cassique of Kiawah by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book The Cassique of Kiawah written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First drafted as a novel called Oyster Point when the author was only eighteen, The Cassique of Kiawah was finally published thirty-five years later, in 1859, at the height of William Gilmore Simms's career. It is a history through fiction of early Charleston, South Carolina, and completed Simms's series of Revolutionary War novels. Through satire and realism he portrays the charm and the corruption of late seventeenth-century Charleston society, and he contrasts the quiet majesty of the wilderness with the violence of man. The book was widely reviewed and highly praised, and it confirmed Simms's position as the nation's best-known novelist.
Book Synopsis Backwoods Tales by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book Backwoods Tales written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms’s account of the region is more comprehensive than that of any other author of his time; he treats the major intellectual and social issues of the South and depicts the bonds and tensions among all of its inhabitants. By the mid-1840s Simms’s novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him “the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, produced.” The twelfth volume in the ongoing Arkansas Edition of the works of William Gilmore Simms, Backwoods Tales brings together three of the best examples of his comic writing. All were written during the last decade of Simms’s life, when he had become a master of his craft. These three tales belong in the tradition of southern backwoods humor, a genre that flourished before the Civil War and produced classic tales by such authors as George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Paddy McGann, “Sharp Snaffles,” and “Bill Bauldy” are all frame tales, told by rustic narrators in authentic dialect, with frequent pauses for libation and comment. These three pieces of writing, never before published together, stand among the best examples of American humor of the nineteenth century.
