Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "swamp Doctor"
Author | : Henry Clay Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : Henry Clay Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : William Mervale Smith |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811715379 |
William Mervale Smith, surgeon of the 85th New York Volunteer Infantry, faithfully kept a diary of his Civil War experiences. Smith's introspective musings cover matters both professional and personal, from the horror of battle and the almost equally terrible politics of war to his deepest longings and questions about love and spirituality. While some diarists wrote self-consciously, anticipating eventual publication of their words, Smith's entries, as author Thomas Lowry explains, "are of such a personal and self-revelatory nature that we can reasonably conclude that he wrote to himself alone, as a sort of spiritual exercise of self-communication."
Author | : Henry Clay Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Humorous stories, American |
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Author | : Henry Clay Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Southwest, Old |
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Author | : Madison Tensas |
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Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1852 |
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Author | : Henry Clay Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : Henry Clay Lewis |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1997-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807121672 |
Henry Clay Lewis (1825–1850) was one of the leading southern humorists of the nineteenth century. Born in South Carolina, he grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and attended medical school in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduation Dr. Lewis practiced in a backwoods Louisiana community on the Tensas River, where he treated masters and their slaves on plantations as well as hunters and squatters in the swamps. Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor is a series of sketches that follow the outlandish misadventures of Dr. Madison Tensas—Lewis’ literary persona. Many of these stories were first published in New York’s Spirit of the Times. Using dialect, comic imagery, folklore, picaresque autobiography, and the form of the mock oral tale, Lewis presents a vigorous—even grotesque—vision of the southern backwoods, where life was often violent and brutal, sometimes shockingly funny, and always wildly different from the polished society of townsmen and wealthy planters. In an expansive new Introduction, Edwin T. Arnold places Lewis’ writing in the context of the times, discussing its role in the development of southwestern humor as a literary genre. Arnold emphasizes Lewis’ contribution to southern letters through the author’s psychological use of the narrating persona and the complex correlation between setting and theme.
Author | : John S. Robb |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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"The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West" by John S. Robb. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
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Author | : Madison Tensas |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2016-09-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781333554132 |
Excerpt from Odd Leaves From the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" N Fight! Fight! I heard yelled in 'the street, as I had finished giving a lick all round, and Could-hardly keep pitching into the mirror to whip my re ection, I 'wanted a fight so 'bad. Fight! Fight in D '8 back office and here came the whole town to see the fun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."