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Backwoods Tales: Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy (The Simms Series)
William Gilmore Simms
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Description for Backwoods Tales: Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy (The Simms Series)
Paperback. Includes three tales - "Paddy McGann", "Sharp Snaffles", and "Bill Bauldy" - that 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. Editor(s): Butterworth, Keen. Num Pages: 600 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
This title includes three gems of 19th century Southern regional humor. 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' 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' novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him 'the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, ... Read more
This title includes three gems of 19th century Southern regional humor. 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' 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' novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him 'the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557289223
SKU
V9781557289223
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About William Gilmore Simms
The most widely published scholar and editor of Simms, John Caldwell Guilds has devoted more than four decades to the study of Simms and his works. Author of the prize-winning biography Simms: A Literary Life and editor of Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Arkansas Edition, Guilds holds the Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Arkansas. Guilds ... Read more
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