Martin Faber: The Story of a Criminal with "Confessions of a Murderer" Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by William Gilmore Simms; John Caldwell Guilds (Editor)
First line
This is a fearful precipice, but I dare look upon it.
From the jacket flap
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 then murders Emily so that he might marry another woman, Constance. Martin confesses to his friend and is killed after attempting to stab Constance when she visits him in jail. The book was immediately successful and was well received by the northern media, thus starting Simms's successful career as a writer, one that would rank him as the only major southern literary figure besides Poe before the Civil War. As with other volumes in the Arkansas Edition of Simms's work, this volume includes a critical introduction by the editor and a Simms chronology, as well as appendices dealing with textual matters. This edition also includes Simms's 1829 story, "Confessions of a Murderer," which was the germ for his first book of fiction.
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- Title Martin Faber: The Story of a Criminal with "Confessions of a Murderer"
- Author William Gilmore Simms; John Caldwell Guilds (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville
- Date March 30, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781557288103 / 1557288100
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.34 x 0.3 in (23.06 x 16.10 x 0.76 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Fathers and daughters - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005024765
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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