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Carl Werner, An Imaginative Story; with Other Tales of ImaginationShort Stories | George Adlard | 1838 Carl Werner was published in December 1838 by George Adlard of New
York.[1] In the author’s advertisement, Simms classified
the collected stories as “moral imaginative” tales, a form of allegory
illuminating the “strifes between the rival moral principles of good and evil.”
Such stories, according to John C. Guilds,
may often exploit supernatural elements, although it is not necessary. Simms attributed the origin of the title
story to “an ancient monkish legend,” as he set “Carl Werner” in the deepest parts
of the German forest where the narrator and his friend ... |
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Martin Faber and Other TalesShort Stories | Harper & Brothers | 1837 One of the most important works
in Simms’s development as a writer, Martin
Faber has a long and intriguing publication history. Originally published as a novella by J. &
J. Harper of New York in 1833, it was revised and expanded for re-publication,
alongside nine other short stories and a poem, as Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal, and Other Tales, issued by
Harper & Brothers in 1837.[1] Simms biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes
the significance of Martin Faber for the
author, as its writing and Simms’s hopes for it, seemed to seriously alter his
life in his late ... |
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Stories and TalesShort Stories | U of South Carolina P | 1974 Stories and Tales is Volume V of the
University of South Carolina’s Centennial
Edition of the writings of William Gilmore Simms[1]. This volume contains fifteen stories and
tales, chronologically presented, collecting writings from all phases of
Simms’s career. [2] Simms wrote short fiction, often of wildly
inconsistent quality, throughout his long career; his best fiction was praised
by Poe, while his poorer fiction was often self-consciously born out of
economic necessity[3]. Simms published his short fiction widely both
in a variety of periodicals and multiple book-length ... |
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The Prima Donna: A Passage From City LifeShort Stories | Louis A. Godey | 1844 While one of the more obscure
works in Simms’s canon, The Prima
Donna: A Passage from City Life, provides
an intriguing look into his relationship with the serial publishers who
published so much of his work. It is
also a noteworthy work for its content. Biographer
John C. Guilds finds that it reflects
Simms’s “interest in theater” and helps to demonstrate that the author “wrote
more effectively about drama than he
wrote drama itself.”[1]
A brief, 24-page fiction published as a standalone book by Louis A. Godey in
1844, The Prima Donna was originally
composed sometime ... |
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The Wigwam and the CabinShort Stories | Redfield | 1856 Originally
published by Wiley and Putnam in two volumes—the first series in October 1845 and
the second in February 1846—for the Library of American Books series, The Wigwam and the Cabin is a collection
of border stories about the southwestern frontier. Simms best summarized the collection in a
dedicatory letter to his father-in-law for the 1856 Redfield edition: “One word
for the material of these legends. It is
local, sectional—and to be national
in literature, one must needs be sectional. No one mind can fully or fairly illustrate
the characteristics of any great ... |