The Forayers, Or, The Raid of the Dog Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forayers, Or, The Raid of the Dog Days write by William Gilmore Simms. This book was released on 2003-01-01. The Forayers, Or, The Raid of the Dog Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create a prose epic through a series of linked novels detailing American history and struggles from early colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. The Forayers, which was the sixth book in his series of eight Revolutionary War novels set in the South, describes events around Orangeburg, South Carolina, before the Battle of Eutaw Springs (itself covered in this novel's sequel, Eutaw). 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." He described it to a friend as "fresh and original" and wrote that "the characterization [is] as truthful as forcible. It is at once a novel of society & a romance."
The Simms Reader
The Simms Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Simms Reader write by William Gilmore Simms. This book was released on 2001. The Simms Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long considered a leading literary figure of the Old South, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) wrote letters, novels, short fiction, drama, essays, and poetry in his prolific career. Born in Charleston to an old South Carolina family of modest means and raised by a grandmother with whom his father left him after his mother's death, Simms felt a simultaneous sense of loyalty to and alienation from his native region. He was a major intellectual figure on the East Coast before the Civil War but saw his New York publishers abandon him after secession, of which he was a vocal supporter. Simms's novels and poetry have been published in modern editions, and he has been the subject of numerous biographies and critical studies, but until now there has been no collection covering the broad spectrum of his writings. The Simms Reader presents a selection of his nonnovelistic work--letters, short fiction, essays, historical writings, poetry, and epigrams--chosen and introduced by the preeminent Simms scholar John Caldwell Guilds.
The Forayers
The Forayers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forayers write by William Gilmore Simms. This book was released on 1882. The Forayers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Simms: a Literary Life (p)
Simms: a Literary Life (p) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Simms: a Literary Life (p) write by John Caldwell Guilds. This book was released on 1992. Simms: a Literary Life (p) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encompasses ante-colonial America, the English colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the rampaging frontier and constitutes a unique national literary treasure. Guilds's Simms restores Simms to his proper place as a major figure in American letters and reintroduces the man and the author to the reading public.
Eutaw, a Sequel to the Forayers
Eutaw, a Sequel to the Forayers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eutaw, a Sequel to the Forayers write by William Gilmore Simms. This book was released on 1882. Eutaw, a Sequel to the Forayers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
