附註:"The Library of Alabama classics edition is a facsimile of the 1858 volume"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction by Johanna Nicol Shields; Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; 1. Introduction-Simon Plays the ""Snatch"" Game; 2. Simon Gets a ""Soft Snap"" Out of His Daddy; 3. Simon Speculates; 4. Simon Starts Forth to Fight the ""Tiger,"" and Falls in with a Candidate Whom He ""Does"" to a Cracklin'; 5. Simon Fights ""the Tiger"" and Gets Whipped-But Comes Out Not Much the ""Worse for Wear""; 6. Simon Speculates Again; 7. Simon Becomes Captain; 8. Captain Suggs and Lieutenant Snipes ""Court-Martial"" Mrs. Haycock; 9. The ""Tallapoosy Vollantares"" Meet the Enemy
10. The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting11. The Captain Is Arraigned before ""A Jury of His Country""; 12. Conclusion-Autographic Letter from Suggs ; Taking the Census; 1. Part First ; 2. Part Second; Daddy Biggs' Scrape at Cockerell's Bend
摘要:<DIV><P>Originally published in 1845, <I>Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs</I> 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.</P></DIV>
