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Martin Faber : the story of a criminal ; with, "Confessions of a Murderer" / edited with an introduction, historical and textual commentary, and notes by John Caldwell Guilds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.
- Series:
- Simms series.
- Simms series
- Selected fiction of William Gilmore Simms, Arkansas edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals--Fiction.
- Criminals.
- Murderers--Fiction.
- Murderers.
- Revenge--Fiction.
- Revenge.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- William Gilmore Simms's (1806-1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms's career began with a short novel, Martin Faber, published in 1833. This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg's Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson." Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology. Martin seduces
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE ARKANSAS EDITION; SPECIAL NOTE TO MARTIN FABER; WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS CHRONOLOGY; INTRODUCTION TO MARTIN FABER; Text of Martin Faber; ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.; CHAPTER I.; CHAPTER II.; CHAPTER III.; CHAPTER IV.; CHAPTER V.; CHAPTER VI.; CHAPTER VII.; CHAPTER VIII.; CHAPTER IX.; CHAPTER X.; CHAPTER XI.; CHAPTER XII.; CHAPTER XIII.; CHAPTER XIV.; CHAPTER XV.; CHAPTER XVI.; CHAPTER XVII.; CHAPTER XVIII.; CHAPTER XIX.; CHAPTER XX.; APPENDICES; HISTORICAL AND TEXTUAL COMMENTARY; EXPLANATORY NOTES; TEXTUAL NOTES AND EMENDATIONS
- Text of ""CONFESSIONS OF A MURDERER""Reproduction of Title Page of Revised Martin Faber; Reproduction of Dedication to Revised Edition of Martin Faber; Reproduction of Title Page and First Page of "Miserrimus."; Reproduction of First Page of Martin Faber as republished in the London Romancist; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-96).
- Contains:
- Confessions of a murderer.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-260-0
- OCLC:
- 867793624
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