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Selections from the Writings of William Gilmore Simms
Long considered a leading literary figure of the Old South, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) wrote letters, novels, short fiction, drama, essays, and...
With Tales of the South, Mary Ann Wimsatt assembles a representative sampling of Simms's short fiction and restores these classic tales to their right...
Delivered as a three-part lecture series in 1854 at the famous Hibernian Society Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, Simms's spirited defense of poetr...
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The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms
With this collection of essays, the literary record of one of the first and most important men of letters from the South is finally reevaluated from t...
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 ...
Or, The Raid of the Dog-days
A Melange. By a Bachelor Knight. ...
Or, The Bachelor's Christmas. A Domestic Legend
Gothic tale set in South Carolina and sometimes compared to Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Molly Boyd notes in Studies in the Novel (Summer 2...
The Story of a Criminal with "Confessions of a Murder"
William Gilmore Simms’s (1806–1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity...
Or, The Blind Heart : a Domestic Story
Being a Companion to the History of that State by William Gilmore Simms...
A Domestic Story
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms
Literary writings that reveal nineteenth-century perceptions of Native Americans; Novelist William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) and the Indians who lived...
Or, The Raid of the Dog-days. A Tale of the Revolution
The Founder of Virginia
A Romance of the Revolution
A Romance of Carolina
Viewed from today's perspective, The Yemassee dramatically and unflinchingly bares the manipulation, exploitation, and eventual genocide of a proud in...
A Legend of the Santee
To which is Added a List of the Property Destroyed
A Sequel to the Forayers, Or The Raid of the Dog Days
The battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781 that ended British domination of South Carolina is the focus of this historical novel that brings to life such not...
A Tale of the Revolution
Large Print
Or, The Kentucky Tragedy, a Sequel to Charlemont
A Tale of Mississippi
A Hunter Legend of the "Old North State"
A reprinting of Simm's neglected last novel, originally published in Old Guard in 1869. The book as been reconstructed by scholars attempting to match...
This is a short murder-mystery novel. It tells the story of Martin, a criminal who seduces and murders Emily in a bid to marry another woman. Will the...