Simms W William Gillmore (1 results)

Language: English
Published by published by J Clements, Little Pulteney Street for the proprietors of The Romancist & Novelists Library, 1841
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Add to basketCondition: Good. reprint. Disbound, 213pp, pages a little tanned & thumbed, in need of some TLC. Originally published in 1834, the book is the first of the author's 'Border Romance' series. A vividly accurate and entertaining account of two very different societies in frontier Georgia during the height of the gold-rush era. William Gilmore Simms [ 1806 - 1870 ] American writer and politician from the American South who was a 'staunch defender' of slavery. In 1845 Edgar Allan Poe pronounced him the best novelist America had ever produced. 175 grams.…