A Border Romance set on the rugged Alabama frontier, foreshadowing the realism and naturalism of later American literature.

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One of the author's early Revolutionary War romances, this Legend of the Santee dramatizes the guerilla warfare tactics and swampland raids of Francis Marion.

An interesting delineation of the details of urban life during the Revolutionary War set primarily in the social world of Charleston.

The author's most significant collection of short fiction, taking as its subject matter the Southwestern frontier with all of its humour, violence, injustice, and beauty.

In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissues authoritative editions of out-of-print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters. Each volume has a new critical introduction and a biographical overview.

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During William Gilmore Simms's life (1806-1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse. Simms was an assiduous reviewer and essayist, proving by example the importance of those genres. William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization publishes for the first time in book form sixty-two examples of the writer's hundreds of newspaper and periodical reviews and book notes as well as four important critical essays. Together, the reviews and essays reveal the regional, national, and international dimensions...

In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative editions of out of print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters. Full content from these volumes will also be available online via www.sc.edu/library. As part of the inaugural effort, the six volumes of The Letters of William Gilmore Simms-first published by USC Press between 1952 and 1982-are also being reissued in their first paperback editions. Each volume also includes a new scholarly...