Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi (The Simms Series)

Simms, William Gilmore; Guilds, John Caldwell

ISBN 10: 1557284024 / ISBN 13: 9781557284020

Edité par University of Arkansas Press, 1996

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• Titre: Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi (The Simms Series)
• Éditeur: University of Arkansas Press
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1557284024
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781557284020
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

With its rich variety of major and minor characters, speaking the language and reflecting the mores of the frontier, Border Beagles emerged upon the American literary scene in 1840 with a freshness and a vitality that mark the best of the realistic and humorous Southern tradition.

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Raymond never promised more than at present to swell beyond all reasonable boundaries, and make a noise in the little world round it. Court-day is a day to remember in theW est, either for the parts witnessed or the parts taken in the various performances; and whether the party be t;he loser of an eye or ear, or has merely helped another to the loss of both, the case is still the same; the event is not usually forgotten. The inference was fair that there would be a great deal of this sort of prime brutality performed at the present time. A mong the crowd might be seen certain men who had already distinguished themselves after this manner, and who strutted and swaggered from pillar to pot, as if conscious that the eyes of many were upon them, either in scorn or admiration. No toriety is a sort of fame which the vulgar mind essentially enjoys beyond any other; and we are continually reminded, while among the crowd, of the fellow in the play, who says he loves to be contemptible. Some of these creatures had lost an eye, some an ear; others had their faces scarred with the strokes of knives; and a close inspection of others might have shown certain tokens about their necks, which testified to bloody ground fights, in which their gullets formed an acquaintance with the enemys teeth, not over-well calculated to make them desire new terms of familiarity. Perhaps, in most cases, these wretches had only been saved from just punshment by the humane intervention of the spectators a humanity that is too often warmed into volition, only when the proprietor grows sated with the sport. All was crowd and confusion.
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