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Martin Faber : the story of a criminal ; with "Confessions of a Murderer"  Cover Image E-book E-book

Martin Faber : the story of a criminal ; with "Confessions of a Murderer"

Summary: William Gilmore Simms's (1806-1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms's career began with a short novel, Martin Faber, published in 1833. This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg's Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson." Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology. Martin seduces.

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  • ISBN: 9781557288103
  • ISBN: 1557288100
  • ISBN: 1610752600
  • ISBN: 9781610752602
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 96 pages) : illustrations.
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  • Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96).
Formatted Contents Note: Text of ""CONFESSIONS OF A MURDERER""Reproduction of Title Page of Revised Martin Faber; Reproduction of Dedication to Revised Edition of Martin Faber; Reproduction of Title Page and First Page of "Miserrimus."; Reproduction of First Page of Martin Faber as republished in the London Romancist; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Subject: Criminals -- Fiction
Murderers -- Fiction
Revenge -- Fiction
FICTION -- General
Criminals
Murderers
Revenge
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.

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