Google
×
Any view
  • Any view
  • Preview and full view
  • Full view
inauthor:"William Gilmore Simms" from books.google.com
With Tales of the South, Mary Ann Wimsatt assembles a representative sampling of Simms's short fiction and restores these classic tales to their rightful place in America's literary canon.
inauthor:"William Gilmore Simms" from books.google.com
It features such characters as Hell-fire Dick, a hardhearted, foul-mouthed looter under Tory protection. Simms hoped his readers would find this book "a bold, brave, masculine story; frank, ardent, vigorous; faithful to humanity.
inauthor:"William Gilmore Simms" from books.google.com
First published in 1844, The Life of Francis Marion was Simms's most commercially successful work of nonfiction. It offers a treatment of Marion's life that is unparalleled in its scope and accuracy, all in Simms's inimitable style.