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Mellichampe: A Legend Of The Santee is a historical novel written by William Gilmore Simms. The story is set during the American Revolution and follows the life of a young man named Mellichampe who becomes a hero in the fight for independence. Mellichampe is a loyalist who is forced to choose between his loyalty to the British Crown and his love for a Patriot woman named Janet Berkeley. As he struggles with his allegiances, he becomes embroiled in a web of political intrigue and military action. Along the way, he encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a ruthless Tory leader named Rawdon and a daring Patriot spy named Marion. Simms' novel is a vivid portrayal of the American Revolution, with detailed descriptions of battles, skirmishes, and political maneuvering. The book is also a character study, exploring the motivations and personalities of its diverse cast of characters. Overall, Mellichampe: A Legend Of The Santee is a gripping tale of love, loyalty, and heroism set against the backdrop of one of the most important periods in American history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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William Gilmore Simms's Norman Maurice was a lofty experiment, mixing contemporary politics with common language presented in the format of the Elizabethan tragedy. Written in strict blank verse, Norman Maurice is a play in which the Constitutional and slavery questions that continued to persist after the Missouri Compromise and Nullification Crisis are discussed in detail. Yet, the blank verse Simms used was not poetic, Shakespearean language; rather, Simms presented mid-nineteenth century American vernacular in blank verse. In presenting the political, philosophical, and moral questions of the day as essentially tragic, Simms created a powerful and moving play.One of the other dramas in this collection, Michael Bonham, is based on James Butler Bonham, a South Carolina native and lieutenant in the Texas Calvary, who died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. The final titular drama, Benedict Arnold, is one of Simms's more obscure works. Through this text, Simms experimented with literary aesthetics -- combining drama and essay, which are two genres generally considered to be disparate. Its sophisticated intellectual exploration of the ramifications of history make it worthy of serious critical attention.

William Gilmore Simms's Carl Werner is set in the deepest parts of the German forest, based on an ancient legend. The narrator and his friend discuss ghost stories, which are birthed out of the solitude of country life (set against the counterpart of the city's unbelief and warring strifes) that fosters belief in superstition.

The Cassique of Kiawah is a colonial romance about the early days of Charleston. In this novel, Simms robustly describes the competing claims of the English and Spanish over Charleston and its environs, including the attendant violence and actions of Spanish pirates and English privateers. He presents a vision of Charleston that was not genteel and sophisticated, but rather raucous and frontier-like; Simms thus used The Cassique of Kiawah to critique his home city, with which he had long had a contentious relationship, engaging in biting satire.

Rife with historical details and peppered with comic characters, The Golden Christmas remains a timeless tale of South Carolina's rich holiday heritage. Originally published in 1852, William Gilmore Simms's classic lowcountry romance chronicles the social customs and Christmas traditions of an antebellum plantation near Charleston. Drawing influence from Romeo and Juliet and A Christmas Carol, Simms centers his plot on the pride of a Huguenot family, the prejudice of an English family, and the plight of star-crossed lovers, Ned Bulmer and Paula Bonneau, to win the blessings of both feuding houses amid a festive and frantic holiday season. Simms populates his novel with a lively cast--a learned Northern professor, a young English nobleman, opinionated widows, a blustery plantation owner, a condescending servant, a pig-thieving coachman, and a good-hearted barrister. Interwoven into the text are engrossing details about the lavish decorations and festivities that were the hallmark of Christmas celebrations in the antebellum South. Vibrant fireworks, candles nestled in holly, games of whist and backgammon, Yule logs, eggnog, and a visit from Father Chrystmasse all play their parts as the narrative unfolds. Here, too, are accurate descriptions of dress, dialogue, recreation, cultural mores, social hierarchy, and a vivid tableau of a shopping trip to Charleston's King, Queen, and Meeting streets in the 1850s. Equal parts novel of manners and comic romance, The Golden Christmas is now, as it has always been, a holiday gift to lovers of Southern lore from South Carolina's most famous author.

Yet, though thus barren upon the surface to the eye, the dreary region in which we now find ourselves, is very far from wanting in resources, such as not only woo the eyes, but win the very soul of civilization. We are upon the very threshold of the gold country, so famous for its prolific promise of the precious metal; far exceeding, in the contemplation of the knowing, the lavish abundance of Mexico and of Peru, in their palmiest and most prosperous condition. Nor, though only the frontier and threshold as it were to these swollen treasures, was the portion of country now under survey, though bleak, sterile, and uninviting, wanting in attractions of its own. It contained indications which denoted the fertile regions, nor wanted entirely in the precious mineral itself.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Charleston, And Her Satirists: A Scribblement William Gilmore Simms Printed by J.S. Burges, 1848 Poetry; American; General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General

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Martin Faber and Other Tales includes the novella Martin Faber, as well as nine other short stories and a poem. This publication marks a significant branching out for Simms--up until this point he had published almost exclusively poetry, and this is his foray into a new genre that would become his life's work. Following this, Simms became primarily a fiction writer.Reviewers tended to find Martin Faber representative of a promising new voice in American letters. The stories collected with the title novella exhibit concerns with American history, the fantastic, and the romantic. A Passage of Arms in '76 is one of Simms's earliest pieces of Revolutionary War fiction, and briefly explores an aspect of Charleston's experience with that conflict. Other stories, like The Plank and Juan Ponce de Leon, elicit Simms's interest in how other aspects of history serve as the material for imaginative literature, exploring how American history and national development was shaped not only by English colonization, but also by Spanish explorers and the effects of piracy. Martin Faber itself exists as a precursor to the southern gothic mode, and the influence of German Romanticism on Simms's work is seen in tales like Sweet William and The Spirit Bridegroom. Martin Faber and Other Tales closes with a poem, suggesting that while Simms may have come to see the novel as his primary genre, he would never abandon his first love. Here, then, we have a collection that presents the most significant moves of Simms's overall literary project in miniature.

Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World is a historical fiction novel written by American author William Gilmore Simms and published in 1868. The novel is set in the 16th century and follows the story of the Spanish conquistador Vasconselos, who travels to the New World in search of wealth and adventure. As Vasconselos journeys through the untamed wilderness of the Americas, he encounters a variety of characters, including Native Americans, other European explorers, and a beautiful woman named Isabella. Along the way, Vasconselos must navigate treacherous terrain, battle fierce enemies, and confront his own inner demons as he struggles to achieve his goals.Simms' novel is a sweeping epic that explores themes of love, loyalty, and the clash of cultures between the Old World and the New. Through Vasconselos' experiences, readers are transported to a time and place that is both exotic and dangerous, offering a vivid glimpse into the early days of European colonization in the Americas.Overall, Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World is a thrilling adventure tale that combines historical accuracy with imaginative storytelling, making it a must-read for fans of historical fiction and adventure novels alike.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The Life of Francis Marion is a biography of the legendary Swamp Fox of the American Revolution. Simms's goal in writing the biography was to show Marion as a Washington-like figure who should be understood as exemplifying the best, foundational aspects of the national character, as well as to push back against the two earlier biographical treatments of Marion, by Mason Locke Weems and William Dobein James. In this text, he writes with a combination of artistry and historical accuracy in portaying this lengendary patriotic figure.

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The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens is a collection which displays Simms's efforts of documentary editing in the vein of a similar project he published the prior year, Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond. The Army Correspondence consists of letters John Laurens wrote to his father, Henry, between the years of 1777 and 1778 during his service with the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. The volume also features an introductory memoir by Simms and an elegiac poem by Philip Freneau. While writing these letters, Laurens was serving as a lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp to George Washington; his father was serving as the fifth president of the Continental Congress. Simms's hagiographic memoir praises Lauren's gallant virtues, highlighting an American patriot.

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Stories and Tales is Volume V of the University of South Carolina's Centennial Edition of the writings of William Gilmore Simms. This volume contains fifteen stories and tales, chronologically presented, collecting writings from all phases of Simms's career. Stories collected in the Centennial Edition of Stories and Tales are drawn from several magazines, journals, and even one-off printings, as well as from four of Simms's published collections of short fiction. Importantly, none of the stories collected here were included in The Wigwam and the Cabin, a short story collection by Simms. John Caldwell Guilds, the editor of this volume, gathers together many of Simms's lesser-known works in order to call attention to their real significance. Further, Stories and Tales samples from the two broad divisions into which Simms placed his stories: domestic tales or tales of the South, those that have a strong realism and impulse towards specificity in subject matter, and tales of the imagination, more philosophical or fantastical stories, often influenced by European, and particularly German, romanticism. Of particular note are the final three stories in this volume, How Sharp Snaffles Got His Capital and Wife, Bald-Head Bill Bauldy, and The Humours of the Manager, all of which reveal Simms's talents as a writer of humor and are published here for the first time.Several of the pieces published in this collection are noteworthy for their interesting textual history. Included in Stories and Tales is Confessions of a Murderer, a story first published in the Southern Literary Gazette, and later expanded into Martin Faber. This novella was later published in book form as the title story in Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal; and Other Tales. Stories and Tales presents the 1833 edition of Martin Faber, with extensive explanatory notes showing the differences between it and the 1837 version. Thus, the reader is here presented with the complete textual history of one of Simms's seminal early works. The Prima Donna was originally published in pamphlet form in 1844 by Louis A. Godey of Philadelphia and is republished for the first time in Stories and Tales. The Bride of Hate, originally published under the title The Passage of the Night, in Godey's Lady's Book in 1841, was reworked and retitled for inclusion in Southward, Ho! The latter version is presented here, with explanatory notes that thoroughly illustrate the differences between the two versions.

Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond compiles papers from this South Carolina congressman, governor, and senator.