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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813002003321

Autore

Hoole William Stanley <1903->

Titolo

Alias Simon Suggs : the life and times of Johnson Jones Hooper / / by W. Stanley Hoole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, 2006, c1952

ISBN

0-8173-8197-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Library Alabama Classics

Disciplina

928.1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First paperback printing"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: 1952.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Prologue; I "... people is more like hogs and dogs ..."; II "... Yonder goes the chicken man!"; III "... good to be shifty in a new country ..."; IV "... a rough road to travel ..."; V "... dead-as dead as a mackerel ..."; VI "... If Mr. Suggs is present ..."; VII "... then, where shall we be?"; VIII "... at liberty, is this our birth month ..."; IX "... If it be agreeable to the Convention ..."; X "... through spits of rain and snow ..."; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"When these words were written everybody had read or heard  of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a  gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and  applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And  everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850's, knew something about his  creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego,  has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that  deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. Hoole's A