Alias Simon Suggs [electronic resource] : The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoole, William Stanley, 1903-1990.

Series:

Library Alabama Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hooper, Johnson Jones, 1815-1862.

Hooper, Johnson Jones.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008.

Summary:

"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 1850s, 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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-5362-3

OCLC:

609839930