Mary Ann WimsattRecensioni

Excellent collection of stories by a forgotten antebellum Southern regionalist whose frontier humor looks forward toward Mark Twain. My one quarrel is that the editor fails to provides dates for the individual stories, which would have been useful as an addition to her (relatively short at sixteen pages) introduction.

Simms was a slave-owning South Carolinian and staunch secessionist and as a result his work (which included a novel rebutting Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) fell down "memory hole" after the Civil War.