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William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)

Autor de The Yemassee

70+ Obras 378 Miembros 6 Reseñas

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William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina, April, 17 1806. His academic education was received in the school of his native city, where he was for a time a clerk in a drug and chemical house. Though his first aspirations were for medicine, he studied law at eighteen, but never mostrar más practised. In 1827, he published in Charleston a volume of Lyrical and other Poems, his first attempt in literature. The following year, he became editor and partial owner of the Charleston City Gazette. In 1829 he published another volume of poems, The Vision of Cortes, and in 1830, The Tricolor. His paper proved a bad investment, and through its failure, in 1833, he was left penniless. Simms decided to devote himself to literature, and began a long series of volumes which did not end till within three years of his death.He published a poem entitled "Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea" (New York, 1832), the best and longest of all his poetic works. The Yemassee is considered his best novel, but Simms is mainly known as a writer of fiction, the scene of his novels is almost wholly southern. He was for many years a member of the legislature, and in 1846 was defeated for lieutenant-governor by only one vote. Simmd died in Charleston on June, 11 1870 (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de William Gilmore Simms

The Yemassee (1911) 42 copias
The Life of Francis Marion (1845) 35 copias
The Cassique of Kiawah (1989) 11 copias
Martin Faber (1991) 9 copias
The Wigwam and the Cabin (1968) 9 copias
War Poetry of the South (2006) 8 copias
Poetry and the Practical (1996) 3 copias
The Sword and the Distaff (2009) 2 copias
Border Romances (2020) 2 copias
Voltmeier (1969) 1 copia
The Lily and the Totem (2013) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 121 copias
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contribuidor — 98 copias
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones95 copias
Poets of the Civil War (2005) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones25 copias
International Short Stories American (Volume 1) (1910) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuidor — 5 copias

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Excellent collection of stories by a forgotten antebellum Southern regionalist whose frontier humor looks forward toward Mark Twain. My one quarrel is that the editor fails to provides dates for the individual stories, which would have been useful as an addition to her (relatively short at sixteen pages) introduction.

Simms was a slave-owning South Carolinian and staunch secessionist and as a result his work (which included a novel rebutting Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) fell down "memory hole" after the Civil War.… (más)
 
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CurrerBell | Jun 9, 2014 |
 
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amaraduende | Mar 30, 2013 |
First e-book read, downloaded free from Googlebooks. Originally published in 1835 this inspired romance, set in South Carolina during the conflict for American independence was widely read in antebellum years and has many qualities which make its popularity understandable: lots of vivid action, superbly wrought scenes of conflict, effective melodrama, noble characters, nefarious characters, comic characters and many insightful and uplifting authorial observations. Simms possessed immense patriotism and talent and does not deserve to be ignored just because he was on the losing side of the Civil War. The version I read is full of typographical errors but I discovered that the first 20 chapters have been posted on Wikipedia and seem to be error free.… (más)
 
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markbstephenson | Jun 28, 2010 |
This is a masterpiece! The first full-length book I've read entirely on a computer screen (downloaded from The Gutenberg Project) is a 'remake' of Othello set in antebellum South Carolina and Alabama. It made me laugh out loud with one elaborately prepared witticism which reminded me of a similar triumph in Henry James' The Tragic Muse - and there is plenty of other comic relief - but, it is, of course, a terrible and very moving tragedy of human pride, misunderstanding and weakness. My eyes are still wet from the inspired ending of this splendid novel.… (más)
 
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markbstephenson | Jun 2, 2010 |

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70
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Miembros
378
Popularidad
#63,851
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
6
ISBNs
159
Idiomas
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