Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs

Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches

Fiction & Literature, Humorous
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Author: Johnson Jones Hooper ISBN: 9780817389154
Publisher: University of Alabama Press Publication: January 14, 2015
Imprint: University Alabama Press Language: English
Author: Johnson Jones Hooper
ISBN: 9780817389154
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication: January 14, 2015
Imprint: University Alabama Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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