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Carl Werner, An Imaginative Story; with Other Tales of ImaginationAntebellum Period | Short 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 TalesAntebellum Period | Short 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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The Prima Donna: A Passage From City LifeAntebellum Period | Short 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 ... |