Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches
Fiction & Literature, Humorous
| 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.
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.
