Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Download or Read eBook Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs PDF written by Johnson Jones Hooper and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1993-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Johnson Jones Hooper |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1993-10-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780817307066 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0817307060 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs by : Johnson Jones Hooper
Book excerpt: A series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era 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.
